Childhood and influence of parents; primary education; Mills College; conditions in Japan during World War II; work: Time magazine, GHQ-Allied Powers General Headquarters, Government Section; memories of the Allied Powers occupation of Japan; involvement in drafting Japanese Constitution especially areas pertaining to civil rights and women's rights; acquaintance with husband Joe Gordon; influence of feminism; opposition to constitutional revision in Japan; work as interviewer for Oral History Research Office; service as director of performing arts for Asia and Japan Societies; effects of McCarthyism personally and on colleagues; reminiscences of former colleagues