| Sumario: | Part of a special issue on the migrations of women in the Asia-Pacific region and the migrations of feminist discourses and politics. The writer examines the writings and works, past and present, of women in Japan who have tried to forge links across national and ethnic boundaries. She argues that these efforts to deal with the relationships between women in Japan and neighboring Asian countries have a history that begins with the women of the New Left. She reviews this history in a broadly chronological narrative that runs from the New Left activism of the late 1960s and 1970s to the present. She argues that although some feminists in present-day 1990s Japan try to create links, despite class and ethnic differences, in order to create dialogue between the disparate groups of women coexisting within Japan, the coercive conditions endured by the most exploited of the immigrant workers make it difficult to achieve “dialogue” on equal terms.
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