After the court’s ruling in favor of Ito last week, several of the previously loud and abusive defenders Online Cigarettes Store USA of Yamaguchi suddenly went quiet. The most conspicuous silence came from Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker and protege of the prime minister, Mio Sugita, who previously gained attention for anti LGBQT remarks.
In the BBC documentary, Japan’s Secret Shame, Sugita claimed Ito “was at fault as a woman, drinking with a man until she lost consciousness,” defending Yamaguchi and men as the “victim in these cases.” And her tweet from last June has come back to haunt her.
Sugita wrote that Ito did not deserve to be dealt with as a genuine victim. “I don’t forgive sex crimes. It is unacceptable Newport 100s Box to force a victim to take drugs, or drag her into a car, and do things like rape her and I think the punishment should be more severe. But in an outrageous/unreasonable case like Ito Shiori—I feel anger as a woman that she is treated the same way as other rape victims who are absolutely not at fault.”
The court essentially found that Yamaguchi did the things that Sugita says she can’t forgive and her underlying Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes theme that rape victims were often somehow at fault, was not well-received either. At this point in time, she still has made no comment on the court’s findings.