disclaimer: THIS IS A SOLVED CASE. saw this online and HAD to share due to very little knowledge of this terrible case.

warning: what you are about to read in this chapter is extremely disturbing. you are unlikely to hear a more extremely vile or shockingly evil story than this. consider yourself warned from this point on.

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Junko Furuta was a 17 year old japanese high-school girl who was kidnapped, raped, and tortured for 40+ days after which she was killed in the late 1980s. The case was dubbed "concrete-encased high school girl murder case", due to her body being found encased in a concrete drum.

The murder was largely orchestrated by four teenaged boys: Hiroshi Miyano, Jō Ogura, Nobuharu Minato, and Yasushi Watanabe. A vast number of the participants in the torture were friends of the boys. Miyano was also known to have connections to the Yakuza.

Furuta attended Yashio-Minami high school and was known to be a good looking and well active teenager who was popular, which made some students quite covetous. She did not drink, smoke, or do drugs. Despite her clean lifestyle, she was looked down upon by the "bad kids".

Miyano found Furuta very attractive and developed a crush on her. However, her feelings for him wasn't mutual and she ultimately rejects him. With the exception of Furuta, no one has ever denied Miyano due to his deep connections to the Yakuza.

On November 25, 1988: Miyano and Nobuharu Minato found Furuta riding her bicycle home. Under Miyano's commands, Minato strucked Furuta off her bike and ran away. Acting as a "white night", Miyano approaches her and offers to walk her home, gaining her full trust. Unbeknownst to Furuta, Miyano was luring her to a warehouse, where he told her about his Yakuza connections. After he threanted to kill her, he raped her in the warehouse and then once again in a local hotel.

Miyano contacted Minato and the other two friends, Jō Ogura and Yasushi Watanabe, boasting about the rape. Eventually, Miyano took Furuta to a local park to meet Minato, Ogura, and Watanabe.

The captors were vicious with their threats, saying they knew where she resided and the Yakuza will murder her family if she attempts to flee. Furuta was taken to Minato's parents home, where the unimaginable crimes of the boys were set to transpire.

Two days after the abduction, Furuta's disappearance was reported to the police by her parents. The abductors forced her into contacting her mother to say she had ran away from home and to not attempt to search for her.

Furuta was forced to act as the girlfriend of one of the boys when Minato's parents and brother were in the home. Well aware of Miyano's Yakuza connections, the Minatos did not intervene in fear of retaliation.

Officers were contacted a few times about a girl in the residence but the boys would simply deny it. Due to the failure of officers sticking with police protocol, the boys remained undetected and continued in carrying out the savage torture of Furuta.

Junko Furuta was held captive in the home for 40+ days where the four boys committed these grotesque acts upon her:

As punishments, they made her sleep out on the balcony (in the middle of winter) and even locked her inside a freezer. Furuta's hands and lower extremities were so damaged that it took her an hour to drag herself downstairs just to use the bathroom.

Furuta was so broken that she lost control of her bladder and bowels and was beaten for relieving herself on the carpet. she was also severely dehydrated and malnurished, completely unable to drink water or eat food and vomitting if she tried. All for which, she was punished for.

On January 4, 1989: Furuta was beaten with a barbell, punched and kicked her, and burned her eyelids with hot candle wax. at this point, she collapsed into a whole spiral of convulsions and they continued to beat her for two hours until she eventually succumbed to her wounds.

In fear of being caught, the boys put her corpse inside a travel bag, then inside a 55-gallon drum before filling it with wet concrete. The drum was eventually disposed into a cement truck.

On January 23, 1989: Hiroshi Miyano and Jō Ogura were arrested for a separate gang rape of a 19 year-old woman they had kidnapped a month prior. During the interrogation, officers told Miyano that they knew about Furuta's murder when they well knew they had no leads; it was a trick.

Convinced that Ogura sold him out, Miayno fell for the trap and told the officers the location of Furuta's body. The police found her body encased in the drum the following day and she was officially identified by her fingerprints.

On April 1, 1989: Jō Ogura was arrested for another rape, and was later re-arrested for the murder of Junko Furuta. The arrests of Yasushi Watanabe, Nobuharu Minato, and Minato's brother were also made soon after.

Since the boys were minors at the time of the crime, the judge granted them anonymity. However, this didn't last since journalists from the Shūkan Bunshun magazine learned their identities and exposing them to the public. In their eyes, they did not deserve anonymity.

Hiroshi Miyano was originally sentenced to 17 years in prison but was given an additional 3, making it 20 years. Nobuharu Minato was originally sentenced to 4-6 years in prison but was given 5-9 years instead. Nobuharu's parents and brother were not charged with any crime.

Yasushi Watanabe was originally sentenced to 3-4 years in prison but was re-sentenced to 5-7 years. He's now released. Jō Ogura was sentenced to 8 years in a juvenile facility before being released in 1999, but was re-arrested for an assault in 2004.

In the public's eyes, these sentences were considered to be far too light for the severity of crimes that were committed. However, the four boys were protected by special provisions granted for people at 18 years old or younger.

The judge stated that Junko Furuta had been "murdered so brutally at the age of 17, that her soul must be wandering in torment". According to reports, Furuta's mother was so traumatized she had an extreme mental breakdown, which required her to get psychiatric treatment.

On April 2, 1989, Junko Furuta's funeral was held. Many of Furuta's friends and family attended the funeral, including her parents. One of her friends' memorial address stated:

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