{"id":7528,"date":"2018-04-27T03:46:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T07:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=0f80fc5c829ed05ac74978828a69f4bd"},"modified":"2018-04-27T03:46:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T07:46:54","slug":"japanese-actress-accuses-director-starts-metoo-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/27\/japanese-actress-accuses-director-starts-metoo-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese actress accuses director, starts #MeToo group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &#8212; A Japanese actress who won a settlement from a director she said sexually harassed her says she plans to use the money she won to start a #MeToo group for Japan&#8217;s entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old actress, who goes by the name Chino, leads the Tokyo-based theatre troupe TremendousCircus. She says director Mikiya Ichihara took her to karaoke in 2015 when she was still a high school student, touched her and made obscene remarks, promising to land her roles.<\/p>\n<p>Ichihara apologized and paid several hundreds of thousands of yen (thousands of dollars) to Chino after she made the allegations against him in Twitter late last year after seeing the #MeToo movement abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Victims of sexual misconduct in Japan rarely go public because they often face a social backlash and victim blaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &mdash; A Japanese actress who won a settlement from a director she said sexually harassed her says she plans to use the money she won to start a #MeToo group for Japan&rsquo;s entertainment industry. The 20-year-old actress, who goes by the name Chino, leads the Tokyo-based theatre troupe TremendousCircus. She says director Mikiya Ichihara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7529,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions\/7529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}