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Shiori Itō’s Oscar-Nominated ‘Black Box Diaries’ Has Been Embraced Around The World. So Why Isn’t It Being Seen In Her Native Japan?
A 'Black Box Diaries' Change.org petition is spreading to get the Oscar-nominated documentary distributed in Japan.
As the documentary recounts, Itō was interning for Thomson Reuters in 2015 when she was invited to what was described as a business get-together with Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a well-known Japanese TV journalist with close ties to then-Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe. As shown in Black Box Diaries, police expressed reluctance to investigate the case, citing century-old rape laws in Japan that require evidence of a violent sexual assault to pursue any charges. That decision, highly unusual in Japan, earned her some support from politicians, but a tide of abuse and invective on social media from people dismissing her claims.
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