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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Shiori Ito, symbol of Japan's MeToo movement, wins rape lawsuit damages

Civil court rules in favour of reporter, two years after she alleged a bureau chief date-raped her

A Japanese woman whose rape accusations against a prominent TV journalist turned her into a symbol of the country’s fledgling #MeToo movement has been awarded 3.3m yen [$30,000] in damages.

Shiori Ito went public in 2017 with allegations that Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a former Washington bureau chief for the TBS network with close ties to the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, had raped her two years earlier.

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