Black Box

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
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2021
• EAN: 9781911284598
• ISBN: 978-1-911284-59-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 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