 In 1961, Millett moved to Japan and met fellow sculptor Fumio Yoshimura, the widower of a woman named Yoshiko. A Japanese native, Yoshimura studied painting at Tokyo University of the Arts. In 1963 Yoshimura and Millett left Japan and moved to New York's Lower East Side in the Bowery district. In 1965 the two married and during their marriage Millett said that they were "friends and lovers". She dedicated her book Sexual Politics to him. During their marriage, author Estelle C. Jelinek says that he "loves her, leads his own creative life, and accepts her woman lovers". In 1985, the couple divorced.
