When Shiori Ito accused a high-profile journalist of rape, she did what was considered unthinkable in Japan. Now she's bringing attention to the country’s weak laws against sexual violence.
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00:00The Me Too movement helped me a lot to protect myself, to make other people to believe.
00:05The last thing I remembered was when I went to the bathroom for the second time at a sushi
00:32restaurant.
00:33I felt quite dizzy, so I decided to go to the bathroom, and then that was my last memory.
00:41When I woke up, I was in a hotel room, he was on top of me and penetrating me.
00:51It's not like I woke up, woke up, it's like when I just gained my conscious back, and
00:56it happened because I had a strong pain in my lower body.
01:09The thing that happened during the investigation was that when I had re-enact with the life
01:14size doll, that was second rape, I think.
01:44I got many threats, and also I realized people recognized my face, and there were the photo
02:03of my family on the internet, and I realized if I go out with my friends, with my family,
02:09I would put them in danger, so that made me not being able to have a normal life in Japan.
02:39I'm grateful that all other women have spoken up, because I felt very lonely, and it's been
02:47very difficult, and I feel like talking about it here in the UK, there in the States, really
02:55helped Japan to talk about it, because we couldn't refuse, we couldn't just ignore.