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Marou and Claire met at a bar in Tokyo. Separated by seventeen years in age, by their cultural origins and by the requirements of visas, they have managed to maintain their relationship through these vicissitudes. Autobiography, duography, love story, cross-cultural reflections and lesbian history, Love Upon the Chopping Board explores the personal and political of lesbianism in Japan and Australia. Marou Izumo was born in Japan in 1951 and became involved in Japan’s first lesbian feminist group in 1977. She has worked in women’s theatre, is a columnist and author of a collection of essays on cinema. Claire Maree was born in Western Australia in 1968, and now resides in Tokyo. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Australia and Common Lives/Lesbian Lives.