A Tokyo court awarded damages to a freelance journalist Wednesday in a high-profile rape case that involves an attacker known for his close ties with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ultraconservative supporters.
Ito filed a civil suit in 2017, demanding $100,540 in damages for her suffering and seeking an explanation why Yamaguchi was never arrested and prosecutors dropped the criminal case. Ito said that after she became dizzy and passed out in a restroom, Yamaguchi took her to his hotel room and raped her in April 2015 while she was incapacitated. She said that he continued the assault even when she woke up and told him to stop.
The journalist is a frind of the Prime Minister Abe in Japan. There was a warrant out for the journalist's arrest on April.4.2015. On June.8, the police officers of Metropolitan police department rushed to Haneda international airport to arrest him.
So she passed out in a restroom, he took her all the way to a hotel room, and no one questioned it.... Am I reading that right?