すべてを一度にやることはできないが、何か一つを即座にやることはできる。We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

April 5, 2013
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Japanese are thinking of changing their constitution, many of the leading politicians are the ghosts of
the pre-war politicians as their sons or grandsons and want to change the constitution received from the great liberal minded people of that time.
Let me write about Beate Sirota Gordon.
An American woman who helped draft Japan's postwar constituion has died.  Beate sirota Gordon was 89 years old.
Gordon lived in Japan with her pianist father, Leo Sirota, for 10 years in the 1920s and 30s.
He moved to the country to teach music.
Gordon later attended college in the United States.
In 1945, shortly after the end of world War II,she worked as an interpreter and translator at the
Allied Forces in Tokyo.
The next year, at the age of 22, Gordon returned