Shiori Ito, a #MeToo symbol in Japan, said Thursday her civil court victory in a rape case against a prominent political journalist was "one of the landmark cases for Japanese sex crimes" and she was still "quite surprised" by the ruling.Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a journalist close to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, denied committing any crime at a separate press conference and repeated his intention to appeal the Tokyo District Court ruling Wednesday.Both the defendant and plaintiff held back-to-back news conferences at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, with the former Washington bu…READ FULL ARTICLE
