Edited by Ipo at 10-12-2017 01:07 PM
KRONOLOGI KES
In the evening of the 25th of November 1988, A and C were wandering about on separate mopeds in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, with the purpose of snatching bags or raping young women. Spotting Junko cycling home at around 8:30PM, A told C to “kick that woman”. C did so and left the scene immediately. Junko fell to the side. A approached her saying, “That one’s crazy; I’ve been threatened by him with a knife a short time ago. You may still be in danger. Let me walk you home”. Where Junko’s bicycle was kicked. A woman points where she found Junko’s locked bike. Gaining Junko’s trust, A lured her into a nearby warehouse where he dropped his pretence and raped her, saying: “I’m his mate and we are both yakuza. If you obey me, I will spare your life. Let me have sex with you; if you scream you’re dead.” He then took her to a hotel by taxi where he raped her again. From the hotel A rang C’s home, their usual hangout, and told B that he succeeded in raping the girl. B asked him to keep her, and at around 0:30AM on the 26th of November, A, Junko, B, C and D met up in a park. After a talk between A and B, they decided to abduct and imprison her. They told her that they knew where she lived from her student notebook (which every student was expected to carry with them while in uniform) and that they would get yakuza to kill all of her family if she tried to escape. She was taken to C’s house in the Ayase district of Adachi, Tokyo, easily overpowered, and repeatedly gang-raped. Below: C’s house On the 27th of November, Junko’s worried parents asked the police to search for her. However, the gang forced Junko to call her home three times between the end of November and the middle of December. She was made to tell her parents that she had run away from home, was safe with friends, and she wanted the police search to be stopped. ![](https://yumig.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/h11.jpg?w=768) ![](https://yumig.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/h21.jpg?w=768) At the beginning of December, when the gang were asleep, Junko rang the police, but was stopped by A before she could say anything. The police immediately phoned back, but A told them it was a mistake. Angered by her act, they started to torture her. She was repeatedly punched, kicked, struck by heavy objects, foreign objects inserted into private parts, skin burned with cigarette lighters. They also stopped feeding her. Due to both external and internal injuries and malnutrition, she could hardly walk and had to crawl downstairs to the bathroom. When she could no longer crawl, she was made to urinate into a cup and was forced to drink her own urine. Because of the unbearable violence and pain, Junko repeatedly begged them to kill her. Ignoring her pleas, they continued the torture for days.
The brutality of the attacks changed Junko’s appearance completely. Her badly beaten face was so swollen that her cheeks were as high as her nose. Her burned and infected skin produced body fluid with a bad smell. The gang no longer had sexual interest in her. To fulfill their desires, at around 2:30AM on the 27th of December 1988, the four abducted a 19-year-old woman on her way home. They pushed her into A’s car, threatened her with a knife, took her into a motel room and gang-raped her. Even before abducting Junko, A, B and C had committed a similar gang-rape on the 8th of November.
When January 1989 arrived, the gang talked about what to do with Junko. “Kill and bury her?” “Let’s mince her body after killing.” “We can burn her in an oil drum.” “Fill the drum with concrete and throw it into the sea. The police would never find it.”
In the early hours of the 4th of January 1989, after losing a lot of money playing mahjong, a frustrated A visited D’s house. B and C were also present. After playing computer games for a while, A decided to vent his anger by beating Junko where she lay, barely alive. The attack started at around 8AM. Junko was punched, kicked, had her face covered in hot wax, with two short candles placed on her eyelids. She hardly responded. They made her stand and struck her face with swinging kicks. Defenceless Junko fell onto a stereo and collapsed. She started a fit of convulsions.
The gang knew Junko might die, but did not stop. She bled from her nose and mouth, and bloody pus emerged from her burns. Blood spattered all over the room. Reluctant to get blood on his fists, D covered his hands with plastic bags and taped them around the wrists before punching Junko in the stomach and shoulders twenty or thirty times. A, B and C imitated D and covered their hands in bags. They took turns to punch and kick Junko in the face, stomach and thighs. They also struck Junko in the thighs many times with a heavy iron ball which was part of C’s kick boxing exercise machine. D dropped the iron ball onto her stomach several times. A repeatedly poured lighter fuel on her thighs and set it alight. Junko initially gestured as if trying to put it off, but gradually became unreactive.
The gang taped around Junko’s ankles so that she could not escape and went out to a sauna. It is believed that she died in C’s room some time during the last torture or in the hours that followed.
The next day when A, B and C were at a florist run by yakuza, C’s brother E rang to tell that Junko appeared to be dead. Afraid of the murder being detected, the three gang members decided to get rid of Junko’s body. They wrapped her body in two blankets, pushed it into a large travel bag and taped around it. From his former employer, A borrowed a cement mixer and a truck and took them to his home. They fetched an oil drum which was used as a litter bin in the neighbourhood. They placed the travel bag which contained Junko’s body in the drum, threw in some concrete blocks, and filled up with fresh concrete. The drum was taped into a large black litter bag. At around 8PM the drum was loaded onto the truck. They planned to drop it into the sea, but on the way they passed an empty space near a development site and just abandoned it there. A’s house and drive where they encased Junko’s body in concrete Where the drum was found
On the 23rd of January 1989, A and B were arrested for the gang-rape of a 19-year-old woman in December. On the 29th of March, two police officers from the Ayase district (where C’s house was) came to interrogate them. Women’s underwear had been found at their addresses and the police suspected that they might have committed theft as well. There had been murder of a mother and her 7-year-old son in Ayase district on the 16th of November the previous year, nine days before Junko’s abduction. As the case had not been solved (and remains so to this day), during the interrogation one officer lightly uttered a trick question to A. “You mustn’t kill someone, you know”. However A thought that the officer meant the murder of Junko Furuta, thinking that B in a separate room had already confessed. “I am sorry that we killed”. The officers were astounded as it was just a trick. They went to the empty space accordingly to the confession, where they found a drum with a strange smell. The 305kg drum was lifted onto a truck by a crane and taken to the police the following day. ![](https://yumig.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/q2.jpg?w=304&h=209) Junko’s body was found in the drum, badly decomposed as she had been dead for over two months. Edema all over her body. Malnutrition. Facial features unrecognizable due to severe disfigurement. It had to be identified by fingerprints. On the 1st of April C was arrested for another sexual assault and was rearrested for murder. The arrest of D and E followed.
Junko Furuta’s funeral was held on the 2nd of April 1989. Had she not been murdered, the following day – Monday the 3rd of April – would have been her first day at work. One of Junko’s friends’ memorial address: Jun-chan, welcome back. I have never dreamed that we would see you again in this way. You must have been in so much pain… so much suffering… The happi we all made for the school festival looked really good on you. We will never forget you. I have heard that the headmaster has presented you with a graduation certificate. So we graduated together – all of us. Jun-chan, there is no more pain, no more suffering. Please rest in peace… Below right: Junko’s father Junko’s would-be employer presented her parents with the uniform she was to wear at work. It was placed inside her coffin. Despite the shockingly brutal nature of the crime, the identities of the four perpetrators were protected due to all of them being minors at the time of the crime. Some media however published their names. On the 12th of July 1991, after overturning the original terms, Tokyo High Court sentenced them as follows. A – Hiroshi Miyano : 20 years sentence A’s mother sent a big sum of money (50 million yen≒USD425k) to Junko’s parents after selling their family home. A was released in summer 2009. In January 2013 he was arrested for fraud, but remained silent during interrogation. Due to insufficient evidence he was released without charge. B – Jo Kamisaku : Indefinite 5 – 10 year term
In court it was revealed that B’s father started saving money for compensation to Junko’s parents, despite Junko’s parents’ refusal to accept it. B was released in August 1999. Married and divorced a Chinese. Became close to yakuza again. In May 2004, B (then aged 31) was arrested for the attack, abduction and imprisonment of a man (Crime File). During the attack, B boasted that he had “already committed murder” and that he “knew how to coax the police and the prosecutor”. He was given a four year sentence. A few sources of information report that B’s mother vandalized Junko’s grave “because she ruined her son’s life”. A source of information in more recent years states that B’s father’s savings, originally meant for Junko’s parents, had been consumed by B for luxuries.
C – Nobuharu Minato : Indefinite 5 – 9 year term C married a Romanian in 2006. D – Yasushi Watanabe : Indefinite 5 – 7 year term Seems to be living with his mother after release. Has not worked since release.
The location where Junko’s body was abandoned has been developed since and is now a park. C’s parents and brother E were not charged. Their house in which Junko was forced to spend the last 40 days of her life was demolished after the murder, replaced by a new house owned by a different family.
Before the brutal torture to Junko started, it seems that she once had a meal with C’s family downstairs. C’s mother told her to return home, only to be shouted at (or hit) by C. The parents were not allowed to go upstairs, let alone look into their sons’ rooms.
Some may wonder why Junko did not try harder to escape. Initially I thought so too, but then realized that she did not know what was going to happen to her in the end. Had she known her fate, she would have desperately tried to escape, desperately begged C’s parents for help. Her main purpose was to return home. Afraid of provoking them, I believe she remained “obedient” until she became desperate.
Some sources of information state that C’s parents were not aware of Junko still being held upstairs. Other sources, however, state that they were aware, but did not interfere because they were too scared of C’s violence. To me, it is unbelievable that they could not notice violent torture taking place upstairs. Average Japanese houses are small. Even though C’s parents were too busy to spend long hours at home, a home is a home. I cannot believe they did not know. I believe they knew, but chose to remain silent. And the silence resulted in Junko’s death, making their son a murderer. In my opinion, C’s parents should have been prosecuted too. C was a “minor” which meant his parents were responsible for their son. If C was too violent to intervene, they should have gone to the police. Had they done it, Junko would have been alive today. A’s mother avoiding a reporter (back in 1989) In the court documents it is stated that all four of the gang “showed deep remorse and pledged to become better members of the society in the future”. But at least A and B have already betrayed themselves, particularly B who has committed another violent crime. Gila jahat dorang neh![](static/image/smiley/default/huffy.gif) sumber:https://yumig.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/the-28th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-junko-furuta/
|