Junko Furuta, a Japanese high school student, was kidnapped, raped, and tortured for 44 days at the home of her classmate, during which she suffered unspeakable pain, the details of which are shocking. Her body was discovered in a concrete drum, earning her the moniker "concrete-encased high school girl murder case."
17-year-old Junko had been tortured to the point of being unable to stand or speak. Hiroshi Miyano, Jō Ogura, Shinji Minato, and Yasushi Watanabe were the main perpetrators of the abuse. Sadly, they've all been released from prison.
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Junko Furuta's death was not caused solely by these four teenage boys; many others failed to notice the attack on the girl, leading to her untimely death, to the point where she begged them to kill her.
Warning: This contains graphic details about Junko Furuta's death, which may be upsetting to some readers.
Furuta was born in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, and was a good high school student with few absences and good grades. She worked part-time during her school years to help her family, and prior to her kidnapping, she had taken a job at an electronics store, where she planned to work after graduation.
Along with her good grades, Furuta was an attractive adolescent who drew a lot of attention, which made some of her peers envious. Furuta was everything a parent could want: she didn't smoke, she didn't do drugs, and she excelled in school.
One of the school bullies, however, did not appreciate it. The school bully, Hiroshi Miyano, had a crush on Junko Furuta, but she wasn't looking for a relationship and turned him down. Hiroshi was dealing with thugs outside school, and no one in the school had the courage to stand up to him, and Junko Furuta told him no.
Miyano and his friend Misato went out on November 25, 1988, with the intention of robbing and rapping local women. At 8:30 pm, they saw Furuta cycling home after she finished her part-time job. Miyano told his friend Misato to kick her bicycle and then run away.
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.
But Junko Furuta had no idea that everything had been planned and that she had been drawn into it. Miyano took her to a nearby camp and raped her, as well as told her about his ties to a local gang, the Yakuza, and threatened to kill her. Miyano kidnapped her and took her to a hotel, where he raped her once more.
He called his friends Ogura and Watanabe Yasushi from the hotel and boasted about how he had raped her. Ogura told him to imprison Furuta so they could sexually molest her. Yazuka, a local gang, had a history of gang rape and had recently abducted and raped another girl before releasing her.
Miyano took Furuta to a park where his friends were waiting around 3 a.m. They discovered her address and threatened to murder her family if she attempted to flee. They took her to one of the boys' houses and held her there until she died.
