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Black Box

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A memoir by journalist Ito Shiori, recounting her rape by one of Japan's best-known TV journalists; making the experience public in a country where few do; and her struggle for justice for victims of sexual assault and rape in Japan.

About the author

Shiori Ito (born 1989) is an award-winning freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker who contributes news footage and documentaries to the Economist, Al Jazeera, Reuters, and other primarily non-Japanese media outlets. In 2017 she published Black Box about her own experiences as a rape survivor, making her one of the few women in Japan to speak out against sexual assault. She is the winner of the 7th FPAJ (Free Press Association of Japan) Best Journalism Award. In 2020, she was named one of TIME's Most Influential People of the year.Allison Markin Powell has been awarded grants from English PEN and the NEA, and the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize for The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakaami. Her translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Kanako Nishi, and Fuminori Nakamura. She was the guest editor for the first Japan issue of Words Without Borders, served as cochair of the PEN America Translation Committee and currently represents the committee on PEN’s Board of Trustees, and she maintains the database Japanese Literature in English.

Summary

A memoir by journalist Ito Shiori, recounting her rape by one of Japan's best-known TV journalists; making the experience public in a country where few do; and her struggle for justice for victims of sexual assault and rape in Japan.

Product details

Authors Shiori Ito
Assisted by Allison Markin Powell (Translation), Allison Markin Powell (Translation), Powell Allison Markin (Translation)
Publisher Turnaround
 
Original title Black Box (English phrase transliterated into katakana alphabet for the original)
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 10.06.2021
 
EAN 9781911284598
ISBN 978-1-911284-59-8
No. of pages 224
Dimensions 127 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
Weight 204 g
Illustrations Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies

Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs

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