![]() ![]() Getting to the truth behind the Abe administration’s involvement in dropped charges of a criminal case is undeniably important, sure but I feared that the gravity of this incident being one of sexual violence was being diminished with overwhelming interest in the political forces involved, just as the rapes of women in Okinawa by U.S. I sat in the press conference room (as a concerned Japanese citizen, not as a member of the press) and was honestly frustrated by the focus on the potential of collusion. Taken at Shiori Ito’s press conference at the FCCJ ![]() Yamaguchi and his lawyer also held a press conference at the same venue earlier that day, denied fault for any crimes, threatened to sue The New York Times, and accused Ito of being a habitual liar. She and her lawyer explained her position, thanked her allies and the press, and urged fellow journalists to help her carry the load of investigating this case. On December 19, one day after the Tokyo court announced the verdict ordering Yamaguchi to pay her damages worth 3.3 million yen, Ito held a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan. She has no memory of how they got from the restaurant to the hotel, but testimonies from witnesses and video evidence suggest that she was heavily intoxicated to the point where she was vomiting profusely and struggling to walk on her own. She woke up later that night in Yamaguchi’s hotel room to severe pain, and vocally resisted Yamaguchi assaulting her. In 2015, then 26-year-old Ito went to dinner with former Washington bureau chief of the Tokyo Broadcasting System and a biographer of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Noriyuki Yamaguchi. Taken at Shiori Ito’s press conference at the FCCJ, Tokyo ![]()
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