A documentary film about an American woman's struggle to achieve gender equality in postwar Japan, sponsored and made by Japanese women, is set to be released next April.
"The Gift from Beate" features Beate Sirota Gordon, who drew up Article 24 of the Constitution -- which stipulates the basic equality of the sexes -- as a civilian member of the General Headquarters of the Allied Forces in 1946.
It also focuses on "how Japanese women have made use of Article 24, bestowed by Ms. Beate, to achieve equality at home and in the workplace," said Tomoko Fujiwara, who directed the film after several prominent women, including former education minister Ryoko Akamatsu, raised the money for it.