The perpetrators were four teenage boys: Hiroshi Miyano ( 宮野裕史, Miyano Hiroshi, 18 years old), Jō Ogura ( 小倉譲, Ogura Jō, 17), Shinji Minato ( 湊伸治, Minato Shinji, 16), and Yasushi Watanabe ( 渡邊恭史, Watanabe Yasushi, 17), who were respectively referred to as 'A', 'B', 'C', and 'D' in court documents. The night she was abducted, Furuta had been looking forward to going home to watch the final episode of the television show Tonbo ( Dragonfly とんぼ). She was a popular girl with pretty features and had dreams of becoming an idol singer.

Īt high school, Furuta was well-liked by her classmates, with high grades and very infrequent absences. Furuta also accepted a job at an electronics retailer, where she planned on working after graduation. She did this to save up money for a graduation trip she had planned. As a teenager, she attended Yashio-Minami High School and worked part-time at a plastic molding factory during after-school hours since October 1988. She lived with her parents, her older brother, and her younger brother. The perpetrators' sentences ranged from juvenile detention to 20 years in prison.įuruta was born in Misato, Saitama Prefecture. The crime has been described as the worst case of juvenile delinquency in post-war Japan. The abuse was mainly perpetrated by four male teenagers (Hiroshi Miyano, Jō Ogura, Shinji Minato, and Yasushi Watanabe) over a period of 40 days from 25 November 1988 to 4 January 1989. Her case was called the 'concrete-encased high school girl murder case' ( 女子高生コンクリート詰め殺人事件), due to her body being discovered in a concrete drum. Junko Furuta ( 古田順子, Furuta Junko) was a Japanese high school student who was abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered. Minato's parents ordered to pay compensation to Furuta's parents in civil suit

Torture murder, child murder, kidnapping, child abduction, child rape, gang rapeĬommitting bodily injury that resulted in death

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