Richard Poole, one of the Americans who helped draft Japan’s Constitution, died Sunday at his home in Virginia, his family said. He was 86.
After World War II, Poole was assigned as a navy officer to the headquarters of the Allied Occupation of Japan, and was a member of the group drafting the postwar Constitution.
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