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Japan #MeToo Survivor Says Media Are Failing In Wake Of Fuji TV Scandal

Japanese journalist Shiori Ito won a landmark civil case in 2019 against a prominent TV reporter accused of raping her (Credit: AFP)

Japanese media are still failing to report sexual assault cases properly, a key figure in the country's nascent #MeToo movement told AFP in the wake of the scandal surrounding celebrity Masahiro Nakai and Fuji TV.

Former boy band star Nakai was accused in a tabloid last month of sexually assaulting a woman in 2023, allegedly paying her some 90 million yen (about $570,000) as she signed a non-disclosure agreement.

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