ABSTRACT
The Japanese women's national team that participated in the Athens Olympic Games was given the nickname Nadeshiko Japan, and they advanced to the quarterfinals. The JFA released the Nadeshiko Vision, stating that the goal was to increase the number of players in women's soccer up to 300,000 by 2015, reinforcing the system of finding and developing talent, and coming within the top five in the FIFA rankings. They won the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) Women's World Cup in Germany 2011 and became world champions. The discussion on globalization in sports and the international migration of athletes can be based on the results of the study of male athletes migration following the work of Bale and Maguire. A follow-up, longer-term study could analyze how their experience of international migration influences their post-retirement working careers and in which ways the international migration in Japanese women's soccer might impact on gender consciousness in the country.
