National / Crime & Legal Jun 9, 2020
Shiori Ito, journalist in Japan's #MeToo movement, sues cartoonist for defamation
Ito claims the cartoon defamed her by suggesting she filed a false rape accusation and is pretending to be a rape victim.
National / Crime & Legal Jan 6, 2020
Former TV reporter Noriyuki Yamaguchi appeals ruling in Japan #MeToo case
A former television reporter is appealing a civil court ruling that ordered him to pay damages to Japanese #MeToo symbol Shiori Ito in a high-profile rape case. Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a former Washington bureau chief for TBS TV and a biographer of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ...
National / Crime & Legal Dec 19, 2019
Japanese #MeToo figure calls her court victory a 'landmark' case for sex crimes in the country
Shiori Ito, a prominent figure in the #MeToo movement in Japan, said Thursday her civil court victory in a rape case against a prominent political journalist was "one of the landmark cases for Japanese sex crimes" and that she was still "quite surprised" by ...
National / Crime & Legal Dec 18, 2019
Japan journalist Shiori Ito awarded ¥3.3 million in damages in high-profile rape case
by Magdalena Osumi
Ito said she hopes her case and the court’s decision will lead to changes in the criminal law that will offer victims greater protection.
National / Crime & Legal Jul 8, 2019
At court hearing, journalist Shiori Ito says she was 'desperate to protect' herself during rape
Journalist Shiori Ito, who has accused a prominent former television reporter of rape, said in a damages lawsuit Monday that she tried to stop him and was "desperate to protect" herself. Ito, 30, is seeking ¥11 million in compensation from Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a former reporter ...
Issues | THE FOREIGN ELEMENT Dec 13, 2017
Taunts, tweets and tough talk: Japan's quotes of 2017
by Nevin Thompson
Soundbites tell the story of a roller-coaster year for Japan, from its Diet to its dohyō.
National / Crime & Legal Dec 6, 2017
by Tomoko Otake and Tomohiro Osaki
A female journalist who is suing a high-profile journalist over an alleged rape in 2015 expressed hope that the truth will come out in open court as the oral hearings of her civil lawsuit began at the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday. In September, Shiori ...
National / Media | MEDIA MIX Nov 25, 2017
#MeToo movement confuses media in Japan
by Philip Brasor
During a recent discussion on Bunka Hoso's radio talk show, "Golden Radio," about sexual misconduct in the U.S., the participants wondered if the #MeToo social media movement would catch on in Japan. "Me Too" as a movement was started more than a decade ago ...
National / Crime & Legal Nov 22, 2017
Lawmakers hold hearings into whether the rape case against journalist was dropped due to Abe ties
by Tomohiro Osaki
A group of opposition lawmakers on Tuesday kicked off the first in a series of hearings where they will question police and ministry officials over a high-profile case involving an alleged rape by a former television journalist with close ties to Prime Minister Shinzo ...
National / Crime & Legal Sep 22, 2017
Journalist's appeal of 2016 rape case decision rejected by inquest panel
by Tomoko Otake
A committee for the inquest of prosecution has rejected a journalist's appeal of a 2016 decision not to indict former television reporter Noriyuki Yamaguchi, whom she accused of raping her. The decision by the Tokyo Sixth Committee for the Public Inquest of Prosecution, dated Thursday, ...
National / Social Issues Jul 13, 2017
After rape allegation against TV journalist, Shiori hopes to shed light on victims' plight
by Tomoko Otake
Since she went public in late May with a rape accusation against a high-profile TV reporter, Shiori has been exposed to a storm of hurtful and derisive comments by anonymous internet users. "A prostitute," "A publicity stunt," "A honey trap," were some of the phrases ...
National / Crime & Legal May 30, 2017
High-profile journalist with close Abe ties accused of rape
by Reiji Yoshida
A 28-year-old woman has accused a former TV reporter, regarded as one of the journalists closest to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, of raping her two years ago. The woman, who only gave her first name as Shiori, alleged in a news conference on Monday that ...