Shiori Ito is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. Her primary focus is gender-based, human rights issues.
At the 2018 New York Festivals, Shiori won a silver award for the film she directed, Lonely Death, in the Social Issues category. In 2017, she wrote the book 'Black Box' based upon her own experience of rape. The book, which reveals sexism in Japan’s society and institutions, is now available in seven languages. In 2018, she won the Free Press Association of Japan Award for Best Journalism.
For her contribution to Japan's #MeToo movement, she was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2020. She was also selected by Newsweek in 2019 as one of the 100 Most Respected Japanese. She has been developing her first feature documentary.