![]() ![]() “I knew what had happened but I couldn’t process it.” She ran out of the hotel room leaving behind Yamaguchi, who was asking her if “he could at least take underwear as a souvenir.” “When I regained consciousness, in intense pain, I was in a hotel room and he was on top of me,” she told Agence France-Presse in a recent interview. She suspects that she was drugged, saying she went to the bathroom and the next thing she remembered was waking up to him raping her. Ito alleged that Yamaguchi (53)raped her in 2015, after they met for a meal and drinks to discuss a job opportunity. Ito also said she wants to take legal action against people who have slandered her in connection with this issue. She said that since the judge ruled there was no consent, but the case never made it to criminal court, it highlights what is wrong with the country’s rape laws. Ito said she was surprised to get such a positive result, and described it as a landmark case for Japanese sex crime, according to a report by NHK. But in a news conference hours later, Yamaguchi said he planned to appeal- and he again denied the rape allegations. The countersuit was turned down,” she said. Ito, who faced a torrent of abuse online after taking the rare step of going public about her experience, held up a “victory” banner outside the court on Wednesday. “We acknowledge that the plaintiff continues to suffer from flashbacks and panic attacks until now.” The court said in its written ruling that she was “forced to have sex without contraception, while in a state of unconsciousness and severe inebriation”. The Tokyo district court ordered Noriyuki Yamaguchi, who has consistently denied the allegations, to pay Ito damages and dismissed his 130m yen counter suit against her. A Japanese journalist Shiori Ito, whose rape accusations against a high-profile TV journalist turned her into a symbol of #MeToo movement in Japan, has been awarded 3.3m yen ($30,000) in damages. ![]()
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