Shiori Ito is speaking to a camera phone. She’s scared but she wants to talk about the truth of her sexual assault, two years previously. She is a journalist and if she comes forward with the facts, she will be the one stigmatized. Her family discourages her. People call in to television and radio stations abusing her. Shiori Ito is making a stance in a country where making a stance is akin to proclaiming oneself a pariah.
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