I woke up with intense pain he was on top of me and yeah everything I guess start from there
My fight against legal system struggle and society and struggle to face this instant started
My name is Sheree little speakers about my experience of rape
So black box is the word I often heard during the investigation and prosecution
Sex crime, well, the rape sexual violence often happen behind doors and
It's rare to find any witness. I am on doubt that there are some black boxes in our legal system
During the investigation as well. So I decided to use this word
Muslim Yamaguchi used to be a former bureau chief of TBS in Washington bureau.
I emailed. Mr. Yamaguchi whether there is any opening
in the job he said well there is opening for producers as well and
We decided meet up
To discuss that was the night I met him after work
We were just eating and drink and at some point I felt quite dizzy,
And I went to bathroom and that was the last
Moment that I remember from that night
It took me two days to tell even my best friend it took me five days to go to police
my biggest struggle was that I
couldn't remember how I had no idea how I got to the place the hotel and
I never lost conscious after drinking. I couldn't think of him as a rapist right off
I was also respecting him
Unfortunately in this case never being prosecuted
Prosecutor dropped this case, but now we are in a civil court case
so we had a
110 year old rape law it just changed in
2017 right after I spoke about this instance and the
Victim the survivor has to be the one to report to the police
we have to prove how much we fight back how much we've been threatened and
One of the research from Sweden shows that when you have been sexually violated
70% of victims have experienced frighten in a frozen status
It's quite difficult to ask especially here intoxicated
If you are a drunk only 4% of victim go to police and report so we know it's happening
But it's really rare to hear these cases.
I was worried about my future, my family to make any changes
First we need to know what is going on and I felt that's my work
In 2017 in May 29th I've decided to speak about my experience and
press conference because
I believe in journalism, I believe in speaking up. I believe in the story telling. The journalist
I trusted he said you should wear a white shirt and the jacket
so you look decent and
I said no way
I didn't want to be a show the uniform of what victims should be or behave because we have daily life in and
Of course, he was right. That was one of the reason why I guess got a backlash. I got many names like
Bitch prostitute and maybe in this video as well
Why is she wearing this, you know sleeveless clothes?
but look we have done nothing wrong, and we should be behaving out of
our self
I think there is always rape myth
That people have the rape often happen in a dark street attack by a stranger
But actually 90% of the cases happens by someone you know
There is no concept of
Consent in our law and in general there is saying in Japanese
Yayo Yayo Moschino ji, no no means yes or I like it. It's not written in our law.
How people know
There are some of the convenience store decided to take down the pornography magazine
But before it was so easy to reach in our daily life sometimes
Rape has been used in these pornography as well
So in the place like Japan, we have such a lack of sex education, but we have so many sex content.
I think
Somehow we were always embedded with sexual assault in a daily life
I think I was about 10 year old I was wearing bikini and
There was this guy
Groped me in the swimming pool. I
just froze and then
Once he was over I went to my parents and friends my friend mother say that
It's because I was wearing bikini cute bikini. I know she was trying to ease me, but
That shocked me that that was my fault because I wore a bikini
It continues especially I remember when I was wearing school uniform
Especially on the public train and so we just have to live with it?
I felt
Very responsible that I never made noise about it
so when I come to this violence
Which hurt me the most I can't say one things you have an advice, of course for the investigation wise
It's better to go to police as soon as possible to get the physical evidence
But the the most important thing that I wish to say is the survival is first
For me to survive was to telling the truth, but for others, it's not the same
Maybe some of them is to just keep continue with their life for a while
People around you often tell you that you should forget about it. Just move on. For me
Every day is still surviving. It still makes me cry still makes me
You know
panic
till now they
different places different country has different issues, but I feel like a
fundamentally
We are making documentary film in Africa in Sierra Leone
About FGM it's like a social pleasure that if you want to be a decent woman
You should be cut off your clitoris.
One of Japanese University one of female students say that I feel like I've been
Mentally F. Jammed
Meaning the in Japan as well. There is a certain way the society see women how women should be
Shinjuku shows that the majority was male leader for the black box
Some of them was saying that they could never imagine
What's the sexual violence is but they can imagine what it is like to be under control?
by the power, I'm sure everyone must have
Experienced these things in the school in workplace and family.
I definitely see the change in media that there are now reporting in Japan and I hear more stories
Now the law has changed of course, but we need to change more. It's just we can't wait 810 years more