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, Saita...