While Harvey Weinstein’s accusers are figuring out whether to take a proposed multimillion-dollar settlement, Japan’s version of Harvey Weinstein has been ordered to pay just 3.3 million yen ($30,000) in damages in a very public rape case.
, Japan’s version of Harvey Weinstein has been ordered to pay just 3.3 million yen in damages in a very public rape case. The decision on December 18 was, however, a landmark ruling for the country, where the idea of “consent” is still flexible under the law. she was raped by high-profile journalist Noriyuki Yamaguchi, 53, in 2015, when she lost consciousness after having dinner and drinks with him. She said she awoke while Yamaguchi was violating her in her Tokyo Sheraton hotel room.
She said she believed she may have been drugged. Yamaguchi was then Washington Bureau chief of the Tokyo Broadcasting Service, and a biographer and friend of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. CNN reportedIto filed criminal charges in 2017 but Yamaguchi was never arrested. Police came very close though, actually obtaining an arrest warrant.
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