On June 8, 2015, at the exit gate of the Japanese airport, an old man in a suit and leather shoes said provocatively to the police officers surrounding him:
Go accuse me, use all your strength to go to justice, you can't win, the truth is that you are seducing me.
When he had finished, the old man set his eyes on a woman, and his eyes were full of arrogance and ridicule.
The old man, the director of the Washington bureau of Television Tokyo in Japan and a titan in Japan's media scene, once helped former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe write an autobiography.
The woman who brought him to court, named Shiori Ito, was sexually assaulted by Keiyuki Yamaguchi two months ago.
Shiori Ito
This time, the airport arrest was made after the police obtained sufficient personal and physical evidence.
However, just before the handcuffs were about to be handed down to Keiyuki Yamaguchi, the police received a mysterious phone call from Japanese politics and announced that the arrest was canceled.
Who made this call? Why was Keiki Yamaguchi able to single-handedly cover the sky and slander the sexually abused Shiori Ito as an ugly "criminal"? And in the end, can truth and justice come?
Acquaintance with sin
Shiori Ito was born into an ordinary family in Japan. Growing tall and beautiful, he relied on part-time modeling to supplement his family in high school.
After graduating from high school, Shiori Ito came to New York to study abroad on her savings as a model.
She majored in news media, and hoped that in the future, she could speak out for all the injustices in society and uphold justice for the bottom.
But she never imagined that the first person who needed justice was herself.
In 2013, Shiori Ito, who was working hard at a bar, met a man named Keyuki Yamaguchi.
He is the director of the Washington bureau of Japan's Tv Tokyo, the royal reporter of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and has close personal relations with the top japanese political circles.
Knowing that the other party was a senior in the industry, Shiori specially said hello; and Keiichi Yamaguchi looked at the beauty and did not push it, and said kindly: "If you encounter any trouble, you can come to me." ”
So the two left contact information for each other, and also left a beginning for the crime.
Yamaguchi Keiyuki
In 2015, shiori finished her studies, and she wanted to stay in New York to work, so she tried to send an email to Keiyuki Yamaguchi asking if he would still have an internship opportunity in the United States.
Keiyuki Yamaguchi quickly replied to Shiori: "Of course, we have always needed interns, and there are currently vacancies for producers, are you interested?" ”
Shiori Ito was ecstatic about the opportunity to fall from the sky, so he and Keiyuki Yamaguchi met at a sushi restaurant in Tokyo.
And this meeting made Yamaguchi Keiyuki stretch out his evil hand, and also gave Shiori an indelible gray nightmare in this life.
The beginning of a nightmare
On April 3, 2015, Shiori, unaware of his bad luck, waited for Keiyuki Yamaguchi at a sushi restaurant.
Keiyuki Yamaguchi had just finished his last party, and when he arrived at the sushi restaurant, he was drunk and smoked, and a thick smell of wine spewed out from his mouth.
At the wine table, he bragged to Shiori about his resources and connections, telling her which politician had a lot to do with him and which high-ranking official was selling himself a little thin noodles.
But for Shiori's work, he never mentioned it.
Shiori had no choice but to press the disgust in his heart and drink two sips of wine from the cup under the persuasion of Keiyuki Yamaguchi.
When she looked down to drink, she didn't see Keiyuki Yamaguchi's unkind smile.
Shiori, who had only drunk a few drinks, suddenly felt dizzy and had to get up and go to the bathroom; however, she lost consciousness by the sink of the toilet.
When she woke up, she found herself lying in Yamaguchi's hotel, disheveled and violated.
Feeling frightened and humiliated, Shiori rebukes Yamaguchi in Japanese, but makes him feel like he's "pleasing" him.
In desperation, Shiori could only swear in English, but Yamaguchi replied to her triumphantly:
Very well, you passed my exam.
Beasts, called beasts, do not have a sense of shame when they do things that are contrary to human morality.
The road to innocence is fraught with difficulties
After the incident, Shiori was immersed in a state of panic and humiliation.
That night, she contacted a women's crisis center in the suburbs.
She probably told the story, but the other party said that she did not accept the phone suggestion and could only meet and talk in detail.
The agency is a two-hour drive from Shiori, and Shiori is still in a panic and has no choice but to give up.
After 5 days, Shiori, who was slightly more emotionally stable, chose to call the police.
There were no female officers in charge of such incidents at the police station, and Shiori had to tell a group of men about the shame of the day.
The policemen, instead, ask Shiori to repeat the details of the night over and over again, and playfully ask, "Do you have a boyfriend?" "Have you ever had this kind of experience?" ”
Some policemen even told Shiori after listening to Shiori's complaint: "This is a very common thing. The other party is a powerful person, I advise you to give up. ”
Since you have decided to expose the truth and return your innocence, how can you give up lightly?
Therefore, Shiori actively cooperated with the police in collecting evidence.
She followed the police to the place of the incident to do a "live re-enactment", and cooperated with a life-size doll to restore all the details of the day.
Such humiliation, considered by Shiori to be the most painful experience after being violated, can be called "secondary injury".
Fortunately, the police and Shiori obtained sufficient evidence.
On June 8, 2015, the police obtained an arrest warrant and prepared to arrest Keiyuki Yamaguchi at the airport.
But on the day of the arrest, something went wrong.
On this day, Shiori was told by the police officer in charge of the case: "We were at the airport preparing to arrest Yamaguchi, but suddenly we received an order from a high-ranking officer, who directed us to cancel the arrest immediately, and I don't know what happened." ”
This news blinded Shiori, who had been full of hope.
Just after the arrest was called, the Metropolitan Police Department removed all the police officers involved in the case and transferred the case to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
And Yamaguchi Keiyuki also said to Shiori very arrogantly, "Go and accuse me, you can't win!" ”
Keiyuki Yamaguchi has deep connections in politics. As a former prime minister's royal correspondent, he had a close personal relationship with Shinzo Abe, and the two often met to play golf together.
Who is behind the back with one hand covering the sky, who is behind the black to white, at this moment at a glance.
It was later confirmed that the police station had received an order from chief cabinet secretary Abe to cancel the operation as instructed.
Such a force, how does Ito Shiori fight?
The victim is against the offender?
After the arrest failed, the police department transferred the case to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department; soon, the agency announced that the case would not be prosecuted due to insufficient evidence.
At this time, the abuser Keiyuki Yamaguchi took a bite back, took advantage of his own public opinion, washed the stain white, and portrayed Ito Shiori as a "deliberately drunk and deliberately seduced" woman.
He invited several friends from the media circles to start a program called "Keiyuki Yamaguchi's Confession of truth"; in the program, he was dressed in a suit and leather, sitting precariously, with a Sven scum, and brazenly said:
"I drank with her, and she was drunk as soon as the wine came to her mouth; everyone at the next table was joking that she couldn't drink it too much!"
"She fell into my arms, and I don't know where she lived; when she got to the hotel, she woke up immediately, and she agreed to everything that happened."
However, the physical evidence at that time was very different from what Yamaguchi said.
The taxi driver confirmed that Shiori repeatedly asked him to get off at the station, but Yamaguchi said there was still work to talk about and asked the driver to take them to the hotel.
The hotel's surveillance also showed that Yamaguchi rudely dragged Shiori out of the taxi and supported Shiori into the hotel elevator.
The mouth itself does not lie, but the human heart is full of sinister and ugly.
Desperate
The judiciary cannot give Shiori innocence, and she can only rely on herself.
Facing the public, analyzing herself, and clarifying the truth with the help of public opinion is her only way out.
In May 2017, Shiori held a press conference to tell the public what happened to the public in front of the camera, and publicly raised charges against Keiyuki Yamaguchi.
She was also the first woman in Japan to publicly accuse sexual assault with her real name and real appearance.
However, the cost is enormous.
This society has too many malicious speculations, and there are many public opinion trends that go with the flow; what's more, the criminal Yamaguchi Keiyuki is playing with public opinion manipulation.
As a result, the Internet was full of attacks and insults against Ito:
You're a whore!
You sleep with people for work, and what face do you have to accuse others.
What is even more frightening is that most of the people who scold such words are women; they may be highly educated, or they may be just housewives, but they have trampled the dignity of the victims of the same sex under their feet.
Chance
In 2017, things finally took a turn for the better.
Based on his own experience, Shiori Ito published his autobiography "Black Box"; at the same time, he accepted the invitation of the British BBC television station to make the sexual assault into a documentary "The Shame of Japan".
Poking domestic scandals abroad and showing the humility of Japanese women in front of the eyes of the world - Ito Shiori instantly became a thorn in the eyes of Japanese women, and everyone scolded her for being the real "shame of Japan".
However, as the muddy tide faded, more sober people stepped out of the insults and re-examined the woman who had struggled to speak for herself.
Shiori Ito, on the other hand, is even stronger on the campus and in various lecture venues.
She smiled and told all women how to protect themselves; she also called on her fellow women who had been hurt, not to be cowardly and not to blame themselves, to stand up boldly, to say the man's name, and to expose his crimes!
It should not be the victim who lives in the shadows, but the perpetrator!
Meanwhile, Shiori Ito turns to civil lawsuits, vowing to be innocent of the aggressors.
With the momentum of public opinion, the surveillance of the internal and external media, and the never-absence of justice, no one dares to protect Yamaguchi's evil at this moment.
On December 18, 2019, the Tokyo District Court in Japan re-sentenced Keiyuki Yamaguchi for sexual assault, and sentenced Keiyuki Yamaguchi to 3.3 million yen in compensation for Ito Shiori.
Such punishments are as light as a feather compared to harm; but in the end, justice comes, and shiori has a clean slate.
Shiori Ito, a woman who single-handedly repaid her innocence and challenged politics.
Pieces of paper can be easily blown away by the wind, so why not butterflies?
This is the power of life – resilience and resistance.
When life is smooth, you need to move forward, and when you are against the wind, you must stabilize your feet, which is the strength of being born as a person.