Twitter hashtag helps victim fight famous scribe who sexually assaulted her

#FightTogetherWithShiori was shared more than a thousand times

In late May 2017, the hashtag #FightTogetherWithShiori started to trend on Japanese Twitter. The hashtag was created in support of a woman, known simply as “Shiori”, who appeared on television to allege she was sexually assaulted by a well-known journalist in 2015.

Following a May 29 deposition at Tokyo District Court, “Shiori” held a press conference in which she accused high-profile journalist Yamaguchi Noriyuki of drugging and then sexually assaulting her in a hotel room in 2015. Yamaguchi Noriyuki is the former Washington bureau