Apr 3, 2022
Japan’s top court upholds damages ruling in #MeToo rape case
The Supreme Court has finalized a ruling ordering a former senior television reporter to pay journalist Shiori Ito ¥3.3 million ($24,000) in damages over a high-profile rape case that helped spark Japan’s #MeToo movement. The top court upheld a Tokyo High Court ruling in January favoring Ito, saying Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a 56-year-old former Washington bureau