So I found out about this a few years back and I was absolutely disgusted and terrified and it had played on my mind for a while as it is that gruesome.
Although the murder had actually happened in 1989, the guys who did it are now set free as they have done their time. The reason why I am bringing this up is that people need to know about it.
It is one of the most heinous crimes in Japanese history.
Wikipedia: Murder of Junko Furuta - Wikipedia
This is an article quoted by someone else about what happened to her:
Although the murder had actually happened in 1989, the guys who did it are now set free as they have done their time. The reason why I am bringing this up is that people need to know about it.
It is one of the most heinous crimes in Japanese history.
Wikipedia: Murder of Junko Furuta - Wikipedia
This is an article quoted by someone else about what happened to her:
Well, I have read the answers and the deaths mentioned are extremely brutal and inhumane.
I do not wish to compare the brutalities of deaths but i am here mentioning a frightening story of rape, pain, torture, torments and death that can shake the hearts of boldest of us all.
Rape Case of Junko Furuta:
Junko Furuta was a 17 year old Japanese high school student who was abducted, tortured, raped, and murdered in the late 1980s.
When I read about her case, i remained terrified myself for long as I could not believe that humans can perpetrate such kind of Violence. What terrified me most was the fact that -Approximately 100 people knew about Junko Furuta's captivity, but either did nothing about it or themselves participated in the torture and murder.
Furuta was kidnapped by low ranking Yakuza members when she was returning to her home after her part time job. Police and her family, both were deceived by the Kidnappers because Furuta was forced to say on the phone-call to her mother that- She had ran away. It means she was kidnapped just for satisfying the lust of gangsters and to die ultimately doing the same.
A brief account of tortures inflicted on her:
This is just an account of the physical tortures she underwent, her emotional agonies we can not understand. She was treated worse than animals, worse than insects, worse than our wildest imaginations.
- Raped her over 400 times.
- Beat her several times.
- Starved her.
- Hanged her body from the ceiling and used her as a "punching bag"
- Dropped barbells onto her stomach several times.
- Forced her to eat live cockroaches and drink her own urine.
- Forced her to masturbate in front of them.
- Inserted foreign objects into her vagina and anus.
- Shoved a still-lit light bulb into her vagina.
- Set fireworks into her anus, vagina, mouth and ears.
- Burnt her vagina and clitoris with cigarettes and lighters.
- Burnt her eyelids with hot wax and lighters
- Tore off her left nipple with pliers.
- Pierced her breasts with sewing needles.
When I think that before her abduction, she would have been Adam's Apple to her parents, healthy, happy and busy in her normal schedule, dreaming of love and other good and delightful things, nothing but a deep remorse overshadows me and I repent so hard that I am a human; a part of such a race that is most beastly and hideous.
Shame on Humanity!
P.S: Rape is the most hideous of all crimes, rapists are worst of all criminals. A rape survivor, might have survived the rape but a great part inside him/her dies forever. His/Her life never remains the same. It's my urge that we all should become more sensitive to this crime and let's honor those who survive it.
Many of girls( and boys) and women( and men) are there who have survived sexual abuse and can not tell anyone about it. They are dying inside. Let's help them, if we know about any of them.
Peace!❤
Prayers!
Source: Junko Furuta killer again on trial: Chaos in the courtroom
Junko Furuta killer again on trial: Chaos in the courtroom
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. The few articles that did appear provided little information about the suspect, merely saying that he is unemployed.
However, quite a bit is known about Minato: He was one of four youths convicted in the killing of Junko Furuta, 17, whose corpse was found packed in concrete inside an oil drum dumped in Tokyo’s Koto Ward in 1989.
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.
Considering Minato’s past, the scant media coverage is not the only thing odd about his latest arrest. According to the site for weekly tabloid Friday, the trial, which began on February 1, is becoming unpredictable and borderline dubious.
Suspicions started even before the trial began. First, Minato was only indicted for allegedly inflicting injury. Further, the trial does not include lay judges as planned. Rather, a single judge is presiding.
Junko Furuta (YouTube)Allegedly slashed the victim’s throat with a knife
According to the indictment, Minato allegedly beat a 32-year-old male company employee in the right shoulder with a metal baton on a road in Kawaguchi City, Saitama on the afternoon of August 19. He also allegedly slashed the victim’s throat with a knife.
According to police, the victim was transported to a hospital in a conscious state with light injuries.
Upon his arrest, Minato denied the allegations. “I beat and hit [the victim], but I did not intend to kill,” the suspect was quoted.
The defendant’s testimony changed at the opening of his trial. “It’s 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. However, the defendant did acknowledge stabbing the victim.
Four youths were convicted in the killing of Junko Furuta (left)Junko Furuta murder
In November, 1988, Minato (then using the first name Nobuharu) and Hiroshi Miyano (now using the surname Yokoyama), worked together to abduct Junko Furuta as she commuted home from a part-time job.
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.
On January 4, 1989, Furuta died after the youths set her on fire. The boys then wrapped her body in blankets and packed it in an oil drum along with concrete. The drum was then dumped at what is today Wakase Park.
After Miyano and one other youth, Jo Ogura, then 17, were arrested in another rape case, police uncovered their involvement in the disappearance of Furuta. During questioning, Miyano told police where to find her body, which was found on March 29.
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 fourth youth, Yasushi Watanabe, then 16, received a term of between five and seven years.
Shinji Minato is currently on trial over an assault incident in Kawaguchi City, Saitama last yearSecond hearing
Minato is the third of the four convicted killers to be arrested again. Watanabe is the only one of the four to avoid further trouble with the law.
In the Saitama case, Minato’s second hearing was held on March 3. During the proceedings, Minato changed his story yet again.
The defense said that it wanted to take a photograph of the victim’s scar as it is now as evidence, a request that the court denied. Minato then decided to directly hand the judge a letter. “I did not, myself, stab him,” the letter read.
After the judge scolded the defense for not submitting the document through the defendant’s lawyer, the victim then took the stand. He told the court that on the day of the incident he was driving home from a barbecue party with a colleague in the passenger seat of his vehicle.
Upon passing Minato on a road, the victim noticed the defendant glaring at him. “What are you looking at?” the victim said through his open window. The defendant then punched him.
A fracas broke out. At one point, Minato knocked one of the lenses from the frame of the victim’s glasses. Thereafter, the victim’s colleague exited the vehicle and got into a scrape with the defendant.
The victim managed to shove Minato down to break up the fight, but the defendant allegedly beat him with the baton. With the victim shedding blood, he and his colleague retreated to the vehicle. But the defendant then allegedly slashed him in the neck as he tried to drive off to the hospital.
Much of the remainder of the hearing was filled with the incoherent ramblings of Minato, according to Friday, with the defendant claiming that the stabbing was a “fabrication.”
“Are you saying that you did not slash [the victim] in the neck with a knife and that the wound, for argument’s sake, was a fabrication by a doctor?” the judge asked.
“More likely the police than a doctor!” Minato shouted during the hearing.
“Defeat of juvenile law”
In the Furuta case, the criminal proceedings were conducted with the defendants considered as juveniles. The sentences that were subsequently handed down were widely viewed as lenient.
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.”
A sub-headline in the aforementioned article noted that basically no media outlets reported on Minato being one of the four murderers upon his arrest last year. And, given the state of his current trial, which is also not being covered, one might wonder if justice will ever be served.
Junko Furuta killer again on trial: Chaos in the courtroom
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. The few articles that did appear provided little information about the suspect, merely saying that he is unemployed.
However, quite a bit is known about Minato: He was one of four youths convicted in the killing of Junko Furuta, 17, whose corpse was found packed in concrete inside an oil drum dumped in Tokyo’s Koto Ward in 1989.
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.
Considering Minato’s past, the scant media coverage is not the only thing odd about his latest arrest. According to the site for weekly tabloid Friday, the trial, which began on February 1, is becoming unpredictable and borderline dubious.
Suspicions started even before the trial began. First, Minato was only indicted for allegedly inflicting injury. Further, the trial does not include lay judges as planned. Rather, a single judge is presiding.
Junko Furuta (YouTube)Allegedly slashed the victim’s throat with a knifeAccording to the indictment, Minato allegedly beat a 32-year-old male company employee in the right shoulder with a metal baton on a road in Kawaguchi City, Saitama on the afternoon of August 19. He also allegedly slashed the victim’s throat with a knife.
According to police, the victim was transported to a hospital in a conscious state with light injuries.
Upon his arrest, Minato denied the allegations. “I beat and hit [the victim], but I did not intend to kill,” the suspect was quoted.
The defendant’s testimony changed at the opening of his trial. “It’s 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. However, the defendant did acknowledge stabbing the victim.
Four youths were convicted in the killing of Junko Furuta (left)Junko Furuta murderIn November, 1988, Minato (then using the first name Nobuharu) and Hiroshi Miyano (now using the surname Yokoyama), worked together to abduct Junko Furuta as she commuted home from a part-time job.
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.
On January 4, 1989, Furuta died after the youths set her on fire. The boys then wrapped her body in blankets and packed it in an oil drum along with concrete. The drum was then dumped at what is today Wakase Park.
After Miyano and one other youth, Jo Ogura, then 17, were arrested in another rape case, police uncovered their involvement in the disappearance of Furuta. During questioning, Miyano told police where to find her body, which was found on March 29.
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 fourth youth, Yasushi Watanabe, then 16, received a term of between five and seven years.
Shinji Minato is currently on trial over an assault incident in Kawaguchi City, Saitama last yearSecond hearingMinato is the third of the four convicted killers to be arrested again. Watanabe is the only one of the four to avoid further trouble with the law.
In the Saitama case, Minato’s second hearing was held on March 3. During the proceedings, Minato changed his story yet again.
The defense said that it wanted to take a photograph of the victim’s scar as it is now as evidence, a request that the court denied. Minato then decided to directly hand the judge a letter. “I did not, myself, stab him,” the letter read.
After the judge scolded the defense for not submitting the document through the defendant’s lawyer, the victim then took the stand. He told the court that on the day of the incident he was driving home from a barbecue party with a colleague in the passenger seat of his vehicle.
Upon passing Minato on a road, the victim noticed the defendant glaring at him. “What are you looking at?” the victim said through his open window. The defendant then punched him.
A fracas broke out. At one point, Minato knocked one of the lenses from the frame of the victim’s glasses. Thereafter, the victim’s colleague exited the vehicle and got into a scrape with the defendant.
The victim managed to shove Minato down to break up the fight, but the defendant allegedly beat him with the baton. With the victim shedding blood, he and his colleague retreated to the vehicle. But the defendant then allegedly slashed him in the neck as he tried to drive off to the hospital.
Much of the remainder of the hearing was filled with the incoherent ramblings of Minato, according to Friday, with the defendant claiming that the stabbing was a “fabrication.”
“Are you saying that you did not slash [the victim] in the neck with a knife and that the wound, for argument’s sake, was a fabrication by a doctor?” the judge asked.
“More likely the police than a doctor!” Minato shouted during the hearing.
“Defeat of juvenile law”
In the Furuta case, the criminal proceedings were conducted with the defendants considered as juveniles. The sentences that were subsequently handed down were widely viewed as lenient.
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.”
A sub-headline in the aforementioned article noted that basically no media outlets reported on Minato being one of the four murderers upon his arrest last year. And, given the state of his current trial, which is also not being covered, one might wonder if justice will ever be served.
