Black Box
$30.35
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2021
Summary
Winner, English PEN award Winner, 7th FPAJ (Free Press Association of Japan) Best Journalism Award
Black Box details the harrowing experience of sexual assault Shiori Ito faced as a young journalist in Japan, as well as the national reckoning that followed.
In 2017, Ito went public with the accusation that Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a prominent TV journalist in Japan, had raped her two years previously. But when Ito had gone to the police after the assault, she was told that her case…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911284598 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1911284592 |
| Author: | Shiori Ito, Allison Markin Powell |
| Publisher: | Tilted Axis Press |
| Imprint: | Tilted Axis Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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About The Author
Shiori Ito
Shiori Ito (born 1989) is a freelance journalist 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. 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 Kawakami. Her other translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Kanako Nishi, and Kaoru Takamura. She was the co-organizer and co-host of the Translating the Future conference, served as co-chair of the PEN America Translation Committee and currently represents the committee on PEN’s Board of Trustees, and as part of the collective, Strong Women, Soft Power, is curating JFNY’s online literary series.
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