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Justice Postponed: Ito Shiori and Rape in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

David McNeill
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In June 2018, the BBC broadcast a documentary called Japan's Secret Shame, a distressing tale of sexual violence toward women pegged to the experience of Ito Shiori. The documentary, by one of the world's most respected broadcasters, was the climax so far of Ito's struggle to win recognition and justice for rape victims in Japan, but it inadvertently served to highlight how little impact she has made in her home country.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 16 , Issue 15 , August 2018 , e1
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1 In May, 2018, Ito applied to host a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, which declined (full disclosure: I am one of 12 journalists who sit on the FCCJ's Professional Activities Committee, which votes on press events). Letters and emails flooded into the inboxes of FCCJ members, falsely accusing them of buckling to political pressure from the Abe government. Katsumi Takahiro, a secretary to a senator with the Democratic Party, sent an open letter demanding to know why Ito's request had been turned down.