Black Box details the harrowing experience Ito Shiori faced as a young journalist raped by one of Japans best-known TV journalists, a man with close ties to the current prime minister, and from making the experience public in a country where few do. Her personal story is the kernel of a journalistic expos of how Japans relatively low official rates of sexual assault masks a culture of victim-shaming and institutional failure on the part of the police, law and media, to bring perpetrators to justice.
