MURDER OF JUNKO FURUTA
NAME: JUNKO FURUTA BORN: 18 JANUARY 1971 DIED: 4 JANUARY 1989 CAUSE OF DEATH: MURDER BODY DISCOVERED:29 MARCH 1989 OCCUPATION: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT KNOWN FOR: TORTURE AND MURDER VICTIM Junko Furuta ( 古田 順子 , Furuta Junko ) was a Japanese high school student who was abducted , raped , tortured and murdered in the late 1980s. Her murder 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. The abuse was mainly perpetrated by four teenage boys, Hiroshi Miyano, Jō Ogura, Shinji Minato, and Yasushi Watanabe, over a period of 40 days from 25 November 1988 to 4 January 1989. The crime has been described as the worst case of juvenile delinquency in post-war Japan . The perpetrators' sentences ranged from juvenile detention to 20 years in prison. BACKGROUND Furuta was born in Misato, Saitama Prefecture. She lived with her parents, her older brother, and her younger brothe