BLACK BOX by Shiori Ito (epub)(Nonfiction)

BLACK BOX by Shiori Ito (epub)(Nonfiction)
Author: Shiori Itō (often romanized Shiori Ito)
Full title: Black Box
Length: around 250–280 pages
Publication dates: First English translation 2019
Genre/Categories: Nonfiction; Memoir; Investigative journalism; Women’s rights; #MeToo in Japan
Ito recounts how, in 2015, she met senior TV journalist Noriyuki Yamaguchi to discuss work, then woke up in a hotel room being raped after apparently being drugged, with only fragmented memories of how she got there. When she reported the assault, police told her the case was a “black box”—because it happened behind closed doors and lacked witnesses—then subjected her to re‑enactments with a dummy and skepticism that left her feeling as if she were being violated again.