Japan’s Sexual Predator-Friendly System and the Beginning of Shiori Ito’s Fight for Justice
Plus, updates on how the fight continues today
It was in 2017 that I first met Shiori Ito, a woman who I have come to admire greatly for her courage and her journalism.
Mari Yamamoto and I had been writing about Japan’s dismal approach to handling sexual assault cases and the long-overdue discussions about revising the country’s antiquated penal code for The Daily Beast. The laws governing rape had b…
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