Black Box Diaries and the Battle for Truth: How Shiori Ito’s Fight for Justice is Being Silenced in Japan

And a Q & A with the hotel chain whose security camera footage has been made part of the controversy

Bombshell documentary Black Box Diaries has taken the world by storm. It is the story of journalist Shiori Ito, who directed the film.

In 2015, the young journalist was raped by Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a powerful media figure with close ties to then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Even more unsettling was how the police had initially pursued the case, obtaining …