junko furuta

"The Case of the Murder of the High School Girl in the Concrete"

junko furuta

the worst case of juvenile delinquency in postwar Japan.

Junko was a model high school girl (17 years old) andher life was good before 4 boys came to attend her same school. one of this guys, Hiroshi Miyano, had a crush on her and asked her out several time, but evry time Junko refuse, not only because she wasn't interested but also because the boys were part of the yakuza.

Afetr all the rejection, Hiroshi and his friends fromed Junko. The boys kiched junko's bicycle so that Hiroshi could be kind and take her home... but she won't go home anymore...In facts the four guy hit her and befor taking her to their "shelter" raped her twice and made her call her family lying about the fact that she was fine.

44 days in the shelter

In their "shelter" they tortured her for 44 days

-she was used as a punching bag-she was forced to eat live cockroaches

-in the winter they made her sleep outside-when she tryed to call the police they burned her legs and feet

-they impregnete her-she was raped 400 times

4 Jenuary 1989

afetr 44 days the boys challenged Junko to play Mahjong and she won, so the boys began to hit her (2 hours) and after that they set fire to her body for a second time, killing her completely. Fearing the police, they put her body in a bin and covered it with petrol and cement but they be framed by a repentant.

unfortunately Japanese law did not imprison minors and above all, they made them change their identity as if nothing had happened