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According to Ms Ito, 53-year-old Mr Yamaguchi - who is said to have close ties to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe - had in 2015 invited her to dinner to discuss a possible job opportunity.
She suspects she may have been drugged, saying that when she regained consciousness, she was "in a hotel room and he was on top of me".
Ms Ito was an intern at news agency Reuters when the alleged rape occurred.
Mr Yamaguchi was then Washington bureau chief for the Tokyo Broadcasting System, a major media firm in Japan.
Shiori Ito: Japanese journalist awarded $30,000 in damages in rape case
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