Tokyo which was owned by one of the kidnapper's parents. Miyano made Minato leave and offered to walk Furuta safely home. We have no information about his girlfriend/boyfriend. On November 25, 1988, Miyano and his friend Misato wandered around with the intention of robbing and . Hiroshis parents didnt give too shits. Yep, so that is the horrible story of Junko Furuta. The Parents oversaw the evil but refused to turn the Murderers into the police. Beating her at every turn, including with pipes and golf clubs. They made her stand and beat her with a stick, causing her to bleed profusely and pus to appear on her infected burns. Junko was so unrecognizable that she had to be identified by her fingerprints. Junko would eventually be held in their home for over a month, and they didnt even ask questions. Even after this, they forced her to sleep on the balcony, exposing her to cold temperatures. Junko Furutas death cannot be attributed solely to the actions of these four teenage boys. After he was released from prison, he got married. Hiroshi Miyano, the criminal mastermind, was sentenced to 17 years in prison; he later appealed, but Tokyo High Court judge Ryji Yanase increased his sentence by three years. Junko could have been saved multiple times and she was failed every. I have heard that the headmaster has presented you with a graduation certificate. Miyano would throw rocks into school windows, bring weapons to school, and even beat up his teachers. I would go on for the parents but Ill stop. Forcing her to masturbate in front of her captors or their guests before raping her, while they drank beer. YOU CANNOT GET AWAY WITH IT! Hiroshi raped Junko and then took her to a hotel room where he raped her again. So what does he do? The boys took Junko from the park to Hiroshis house. At this point, this most frenzied case finally came to an end, but the impact that followed in the next few years was beyond the imagination of the Tokyo court at the time. SAITAMA (TR) Upon the arrest last year of Shinji Minato, 46, on suspicion of attempted murder, news outlets provided very little coverage of the story. However, there seem to be nothing about Watanabe afterwards. Thereafter, Minato and Miyano, then aged 15 and 18, respectively, and two other youths took her to a residence in the Ayase area of Adachi Ward where they repeatedly raped, sodomized and tortured her over a 44-day period. Which made some people jealous. Junko Furuta was a 17 year old girl when Hiroshi Miyano asked her on a date. Hiroshi Miyano, Nobuharu Minato, Yasushi Watanabe, J Ogura (left to right . Not even animals do that to their own. According to one of the kidnappers, Furutas legs were so badly damaged that it took her over an hour to drag herself down the stairs to the toilet. Her body was also severely crippled and she began to emit a foul odor, driving the boys away from her. Yasushi Watanabe, now Jo Kamisaku, was released in August 1999, and five years later, in July 2004, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for assaulting a man he believed was luring his girlfriend away from him. Junko was burned repeatedly with cigarettes, lighters and candles. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Hiroshi had a crush on Junko, and she declined his advances many times. When officers arrived at the address, there was no investigation and the police just spoke to Minato through the intercom, he said he was not with Junko. Burning her vagina with cigarettes and her clitoris with lighters as a form of punishment when she tried to escape. According to the descriptions given by her closest friends, Junko was a very intelligent girl who excelled in all school subjects, sweet and, although she was somewhat shy, she got along very well with everyone she met; she had never had a boyfriend or any kind of relationship with anyone and did not like to go out partying. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a1664268bc2004c Now, his relationship is perfect. The killers hid her corpse in a cement-filled drum, which was abandoned in Kt, Tokyo. Junko started convulsing again. Her internal organs were also damaged and she was unable to urinate properly after 30 days of the continuous assault. Her daily routine consisted of going to school and then going straight to her job as a waitress. But Hiroshi Miyano, the school bully, had a crush on Junko Furuta, but Furuta turned him down. They later stuffed her body into a 55-gallon drum, filled it with wet concrete, and dumped it in a cement truck in Tokyos Koto neighborhood. ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER ADVERTISEMENT However, the defendant did acknowledge stabbing the victim. Junko Futuras death was terrifying, and the case, trial, and verdicts all served as a reminder that something like this should never happen again. Hiroshi, she is just not into you. Soon after, she was approached by Hiroshi Miyano, who offered her help and offered to take her back home. We will never forget you. The case has been the subject of several books and films. In case this wasnt humiliating and hurtful enough, they invited two more boys over to rape and torture her. It is still not known if they did it by intimidation or if they convinced her, claiming, for example, that they needed her help with some school work or research, but what is certain is that at that moment Junko Furutas hell started and lasted 44 days. The next day, the police found the drum. Shame on you Hiroshi. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. To keep Minato's parents at bay, they convinced them that Furuta was his girlfriend. Nothing can compare with the level of bestiality that Junko Furuta was subjected to during the 44 days she was held captive in that filthy room inside Minatos house, where the girl had to pretend to be his girlfriend in front of her parents. Upon his arrest, Minato denied the allegations. In any case, the impact of the case was so great that it demanded changes in Japans penal system, especially in the matter of juveniles being tried as adults. The boys took Junko Furuta to the house owned by the parents of one of the kidnappers in the Ayase neighborhood of Adachi, Tokyo. They repeatedly slammed an iron exercise ball into her stomach. Be that as it may, the Shukan Bunshun writers revealed their personalities to the general public. A court later handed the youths differing prison sentences: Minato, between five and nine years; Ogura, between five and 10 years; and Miyano 20 years. The following article includes graphic descriptions of sexual assault and murder. Later, when the case came to light, the police officers involved in this episode were fired for drastically violating the code of conduct. Junko would beg the boys to just kill her, but they didnt. 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Junko was disfigured, it was hard to even recognize her. She has reportedly vandalized Junkos grave, because she thinks Junko destroyed her sons life. She attended Yashio-Minami High School and worked part-time at a plastic molding factory. Hiroshi was a bully and was connected to the Yakuza. The drum was then dumped at what is today Wakase Park. Junko was repeatedly raped, beaten and starved. Minatos brother was aware of the situation, as were his parents, but they chose not to intervene. I am angry that i could punch someone in the face. He appealed his conviction, and his sentenced was upheld and three years were added. The sentences that were subsequently handed down were widely viewed as lenient. The young woman took off running. She was tortured more as her punishment. We have no more Information about his Father; we will try to collect information and update soon. When the boys were arrested, the ring leader only got 20 years in prison and the others only got 5. Sign Up. Her Killers Got off With a Slap on the Wrist. On November 25, 1988, Miyano and his friend Misato went out with the intention of robbing and raping local women. She rode past some bushes, and a young boy named Shinji Minato, popped out and kicked her off her bike. On January 4, 1989, Furuta died after the youths set her on fire. But when the adults were out of sight, Furuta was living in a hellish nightmare. Inserting scissors and rotisserie chicken tongs into her vagina, tearing it. In the Saitama case, Minatos second hearing was held on March 3. However, to the paranoia of Nobuharus parents, they abandoned the excuse of the courtship and intimidated them not to call the police. Hiroshi Miyano happened to be across the street at the time of this encounter and offered to walk her home after the attacker fled. The parents should all so be jailed for life. On November 27, Junkos parents contacted the authorities to report her missing, but Hiroshi forced her to call her parents and tell them that she had run away to friends houses and would not return, so they would stop looking for her. During the questioning, Miyano and Ogura confessed to the crimes against Furuta, and Miyano led the police to where her body was located. They kidnapped her and gang raped her. Copyright OptimistMinds 2023 | All Rights Reserved. Concrete movie is backed on the case of the murder of Junko Furuta, the film deals with as many social factors that produced Furutas four assailants as it does with her suffering at their hands. They also noted that probably about a hundred people knew that Furuta was imprisoned there and that they participated in the rapes and abuses perpetrated; in fact, forensic doctors determined that she suffered more than 500 rapes by an unknown number of people (estimated to be more than 100) The tortures inflicted on Junko Furuta were as follows: On the 44th day of the hell, Junko went through, the teenagers challenged her to play a game of Mahjong (a board game of Chinese origin) to make fun of the fact that, after all these atrocities, she could no longer be the bright young girl she was at school, However, Junko won the game, which infuriated her captors terribly. Jo Ogura spent eight years in adolescent detention and was released in 2004. Hiroshi could now make Junko do anything he wanted. The defendant then punched him. An article appearing in Shukan Shincho (Sept. 6, 2018) described the subsequent arrests of the three convicted killers as a defeat of the juvenile law.. 77.65.215.14 YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGIVEN BECAUSE OF THIS. I beat and hit [the victim], but I did not intend to kill, the suspect was quoted. Watanabe is the only one of the four to avoid further trouble with the law. Retrieved from The Teal Mango website: https://www.thetealmango.com/featured/junko-furuta-case/, Junko Furuta Was Raped and Tortured for 40 Days. Yasushi Watanabe, nowJo Kamisaku, was released in August 1999, and five years later, in July 2004, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for assaulting a man he believed was luring his girlfriend away from him. I think Kamisaku is Ogura, not Watanabe given that in the second article the photo of the 4th man had Watanabe as the name, while the 3rd had J Kamisaku. And, given the state of his current trial, which is also not being covered, one might wonder if justice will ever be served. Since the 4 young men were still minors at the time of committing the crime, the court gave them sentences of only 8 years, while only Hiroshi Miyano got 17 years in prison. I hope a shitty life or theyre dead. The case became widely known not only due to the graphic nature of the repeated beatings and sexual assaults endured by the victim but also the perception that the perpetrators received lenient sentences. The longest any of the four served was a 20-year sentence given to Miyano, who was named as the ringleader. According to their statements at the trial, they kept the young woman naked and locked in a room for 44 days, where the four raped and abused her in various ways, including inserting foreign bodies including an iron bar in her vagina inserting pyrotechnic devices into her rectum and then setting them on fire, which caused her obviously serious injuries. Junko Furuta was born on January 18, 1971. She was forced to eat her feces, urine and cockroaches. Misato did as he was told, and Miyano, who was standing nearby, pretended to witness the attack by approaching her and offering to drive her home. At 3am the next morning, Hiroshi took Junko to a park to meet up with Shinji Minato, Jo Ogura and Yashushi Wantanabe. What happened to Junko Furuta? Making him eat live cockroaches and drink his own urine. In a twist of fate, those behind Junko Furuta's death were caught when two of them were arrested for a different gang rape. So in the case there were 4 perpetrators: Hiroshi Miyano, J Ogura, Shinji Minato, and Yasushi Watanabe. I am appalled at the sentencing. This gave them an estimated $600,000 (per truTV). A fracas broke out. Hiroshi Miyano, J Ogura, Shinji Minato, and Yasushi Watanabe were the culprits. The boys started to panic when they heard this, and they forced Junko to call her family to say she was okay, and had gone to a friends house. Brain abnormalities are not uncommon in psychopaths. I dont even want to try to imagine being where this poor child was. A high school student is killed and tortured in Japan. Junko Furuta Killers Now: Where Are the Four Convicts Today? Publication . Hiroshi Miyano, Jo Ogura, Shinji Minato, and Yasushi Watanabe were the ringleaders in what was considered one of the most violent crimes in post-war Japan.Though only teenagers, they demonstrated a barbaric level of cruelty on a young woman that is worse than any torture film ever written. However, it is also important to recognize the failures of the justice system in providing adequate punishment and protection for the victim and her family. The Optimistminds editorial team is made up of psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health professionals. WTF, I HATE EVERYONE IN THIS CASE. I have searched and it is saying that her grave site is "Paradise North Cemetery Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA". He was released that same year. I cannot forgive you Hiroshi AT ALL. Also, we have no idea about his brother and sister, and we dont know their names either. He is now living under a different name. After another round of beatings, she was doused with lighter fluid and set ablaze. Specifically, four rowdy teenage boys kidnapped her and tormented her for 44 days, from November 1988 to January 1989. Its not correct that I beat [the victim] in the right shoulder with a baton, he told the court in commenting on the revised charge of inflicting injury. In retaliation, the young men brutally beat her and set her legs and arms on fire. She was hung from the ceiling and the boys would take turns punching her. Experienced rapists from an early age, the two were known to be experts at spotting easy targets. Though only teenagers, they demonstrated a barbaric level of cruelty on a young woman that is worse than any torture film ever written. She reportedly lost consciousness and had to be revived by being dipped in a bucket of water. Correction: Miyano was arrested for suspected fraud but there was said to not be enough evidence so he was released without charges. In particular, four infamous teenage boys kidnapped her and tortured her for forty-four days, from November 1988 to January 1989. They thought she was fine, and she was complying to the demands that these assholes had and told them she was safe. They kept Junko naked and locked in a room for 44 days, where the four raped and abused her in various ways, including inserting foreign bodies including an iron bar in her vagina inserting pyrotechnic devices into her rectum and then setting them on fire, which caused her obviously serious injuries. Your IP: Yazuka, a local gang, had a history of gang rape and had recently abducted and raped another girl before releasing her. Junko Furuta had two brothers, one younger and one older, studied at Yashio-Minami High School, and had a part-time job at the time of the crime. Beautiful, friendly and very endearing, she used to attract a lot of attention wherever she went. While they were at the park, the boys started going through Junkos belongings. Since Hiroshi belonged to the Yakuza, he threatened that he could kill anyone who intervened. So Miyano took her to a warehouse where he raped her. Performance & security by Cloudflare. 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