{"id":12235,"date":"2019-12-18T14:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T05:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/18\/shiori-ito-symbol-of-japans-metoo-movement-wins-lawsuit-damages"},"modified":"2019-12-18T14:09:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T05:09:17","slug":"shiori-ito-symbol-of-japans-metoo-movement-wins-rape-lawsuit-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12235","title":{"rendered":"Shiori Ito, symbol of Japan&#8217;s MeToo movement, wins rape lawsuit damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil court rules in favour of reporter, two years after she alleged a bureau chief date-raped her<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese woman whose rape accusations against a prominent TV journalist turned her into a symbol of the country\u2019s fledgling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/metoo-movement\">#MeToo movement<\/a> has been awarded 3.3m yen [$30,000] in damages.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/18\/shiori-ito-symbol-of-japans-metoo-movement-wins-lawsuit-damages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil court rules in favour of reporter, two years after she alleged a bureau chief date-raped herA Japanese woman whose rape accusations against a prominent TV journalist turned her into a symbol of the country\u2019s fledgling #MeToo movement has been awa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,238,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-media","category-women"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12236,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235\/revisions\/12236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}