Former TV reporter doesn't agree to pay Japanese journalist who accused him of rape

In December last year, the Tokyo District Court ordered former TV reporter Noriyuki Yamaguchi to pay compensation of 3.3 million yen (about $30,500) for damages to journalist Shiori Ito.

The court also rejected a counterclaim filed by Yamaguchi, which demanded 130 million yen ($1.2 million) in compensation from Ito on the grounds that the woman had damaged her social reputation.

Ito accused the 53-year-old man of raping her at a hotel in Tokyo in 2015, a case that has had a wide impact on Japan and abroad and made the journalist a symbol of the victims of sexual assault in the Asian country.

Yamaguchi filed the bug on Monday, Kyodo reports.

While Ito claims that the man raped her when she was intoxicated and unconscious, Yamaguchi maintains that the sex was consensual and that the woman drank too much.

Yamaguchi and Ito met to dine at a restaurant and talk about a job opportunity for her. The woman says the last thing she remembers is going to the bathroom at the property. When he regained consciousness, the man was upon her in the hotel room in Tokyo. The 30-year-old journalist was in a weave.

Ito criminally denounced Yamaguchi, but the prosecution decided not to bring him to trial.

Yamaguchi is well known in the journalistic world in Japan. He was head of the Tokyo Broadcasting System Television network office in Washington and wrote a biography of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (International Press)