Two unforgettable chilling images will likely stay with viewers long after seeing the documentary “Black Box Diaries,” recently nominated for a Critics Choice Documentary Award. In the beginning, we see security camera footage of a young woman, the film’s writer/director Shiori Itô, apparently drugged or drunk, being dragged through a sidewalk and hotel lobby by the man who is about to rape her. He is Noriyuki Yamaguchi, Washington Chief of the Tokyo Broadcasting System. He was close to the police and allied with then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. 

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