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The woman on the other end said she would have to come into the office for counseling. Later, alone at her apartment, she called a rape helpline. All I could think was, ‘I want to go to a safe place and wash myself.’” You always look so strong but now you look almost like a kid.’ He completely changed his tone and I was so confused. I asked: ‘What did you do to me?’ He said, I’m sorry, let’s go and get the morning-after pill at the pharmacy.

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He said: ‘I have your underwear as a souvenir.’ I didn’t know how to curse in Japanese so in English, I said, ‘What the fuck are you doing?’ And he hadn’t worn a condom.

“I had a really rough fight with him and I was hurt. When she went back to the bedroom, she says the man tried to rape her again. In the bathroom she realized she was naked and had to return for her clothes. The last thing she recalled was using the bathroom in a sushi restaurant. She’d had a night out with the man in Ebisu during which she believes her alcoholic drink was spiked. Groggy and in pain, she tried to remember where she was. She pushed him off and fled to the bathroom. Shiori says she awoke in an upscale Tokyo hotel in the small hours of Saturday April 4th, 2015 to find a man lying on top of her, inside her. Among her sins, it seems, was unbuttoning the top of her blouse during the press conference. She was a ‘prostitute’ who had brought it on herself. Instead, she says, the response was a flood of hate mail. She had hoped to trigger a debate about the treatment of victims in Japan. The emotions forever associated with that incident – powerlessness, fear, humiliation – flared again after a press conference in June this year, where Shiori, (she wants her last name concealed) now 28, told fellow reporters she had been raped. “My friend’s mother said it was because I was wearing a bikini.” Shaking and terrified, she told the grownups but their response was bewildering. “A man came from behind and touched me on every part of my body,” she recalls, crying at the memory. Wearing a new swimsuit, she splashed happily in the water until she was sexually assaulted. When Shiori was 10, her mother took her to Tokyo Summerland, an indoor pool.

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