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= Shiori Itō = Shiori Itō (伊藤 詩織 Itō Shiori, born 1989) is a Japanese journalist, author and women's rights activist. She became known for her public allegation in May, 2017 that two years earlier on April 3rd, 2015 she was raped by Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a well known television journalist and biographer of Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, in a hotel room in Tokyo after losing consciousness while dining with him at a local sushi restaurant. The decision by the police to drop the prosecution of Yamaguchi together with Ito's decision to publicly identify herself and her alleged aggressor, an unusual step in Japanese culture, has resulted in the case becoming both high profile and controversial in her home country. In late 2017, Itō published her memoir, Black Box, which recounts her ordeal during the criminal investigation and calls for an improvement in the treatment of Japanese women subjected to sexual crimes. Due to her ongoing campaigning and speaking out on behalf of Japanese sexual abuse victims, she has been called the Face of the #MeToo Movement in Japan.

Rape Claim
Shiori Itō first met Noriyuki Yamaguchi in 2013 while studying journalism in New York where he was working as Washington Bureau Chief for Tokyo Broadcast Station (TBS) a prominent Japanese television broadcaster. Later, after returning to Japan, Itō contacted Yamaguchi again for career advice. He suggested that he may be able to find her a job under him and that they should meet for dinner at Kiichi, a trendy Tokyo sushi restaurant. Initially surprised that they were dining alone, Itō began to feel dizzy after several drinks and made her way to the women's bathroom where she reported losing consciousness. She later claimed she may have been drugged. A taxi driver who was later interviewed as a witness by Japanese police, stated that after picking up both individuals from the restaurant, Itō expressed a desire to be taken to a train station so that she could go home, but Yamaguchi directed him to instead take them back to his hotel, the Sheraton Miyako in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Itō herself remembers nothing after the restaurant and the next thing she recalls is waking up on a hotel bed, feeling an intense pain, with Yamaguchi on top of her, raping her. She then attempted to find her clothes but he pushed her on the bed again. In recounting the incident for a television documentary, Itō is quoted as saying, "I tried to fight but he was quite strong. I wasn’t able to get any air.  He was on top of me and I couldn’t breathe. I thought: ‘This is it, I’m going to die here’.”

Yamaguchi has responded by consistently denying that he has done anything illegal and on a television chat show claimed, "Really, she got herself drunk — I had no choice but to take her to my hotel to rest a while". In court documents he says he undressed her to clean her up and laid her on one of the beds in his room.

Initial Police Investigation
Itō filed a criminal complaint at Takanawa Police Station. The desk sergeant and other officers initially discouraged her from pursuing her complaint stating that they doubted her story because she was not crying and that it would be difficult to obtain a prosecution against such a high profile individual. After repeatedly asking to see a female officer, Ito was shown to a room where policewoman spoke to her. However, the woman informed her that she would be unable to take a statement as she worked in the traffic division. In Japan, only 8% of serving police officers are female.