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Junko Furuta: 44 Days in Hell


Junko Furuta

I was scanning my news feeds on Facebook when I clicked the "Memories" tab and saw the article I shared years ago about "Junko Furuta." I know many of you already heard her name. Still, I want to share her story again to remind others, especially the women out there, to be careful 24/7.


I also read some articles from verified websites to ensure that all the information I shared with you is accurate.


Junko Furuta, a Japanese adolescent young lady, seized on November 25, 1988, was gang-raped and tormented for 41 days and died on January 4, 1989, at 17. Eventually, the four abhorrent convicts stuffed her body in a drum loaded up with concrete and dumped her at a building site. The homicide case of Junko Furuta is one of the most noticeably terrible crimes at any point committed in human history.


Junko Furuta, born on January 18, 1971, in Misato, Saitama, Japan. She was a pretty and well-known student at Yashio-Minami High School in Saitama Prefecture in Misato. As a youngster, Junko went to class and work as a part-timer after school hours. She lived with her parents, her siblings. Preceding her kidnapping, she had accepted a job at a gadgets retailer, where she anticipated working after graduation.


Although Junko avoided the gathering scenes, her beguiling magnificence had gotten the attention of a high school menace, Hiroshi Miyano. He asked Junko out for a date finding the modest teen young lady napping. His reasonable presumption and notoriety didn't appeal to Junko. She considerately, however, immovably declined the greeting goading Hiroshi.


Tragically, Junko didn't think that she would meet her slow death of 44 days horribly for this easily overlooked detail. Being one of the most noticeably terrible victims of assault and grisly homicide in history. Before that, no one said no to Hiroshi. Mainly, not some little one like Junko Furuta because of Hiroshi's associations with the Yakuza gang―a brutal and powerful group in Japan―caused others to have dread on him.


In this manner, Hiroshi chose to destroy Junko's life in every one of the potential ways. In practically no time, he attempted on different occasions to deliver the retribution from Junko. Nonetheless, he couldn't do as such. However, on November 25, 1988, Junko left her home and never returned.

Junko and her perpetrators

It was around 8:30 around evening time, Hiroshi and his companion Nobuharu Minato meandering around Misato, determined to loot and assault neighborhood ladies. Around then, they spotted Junko Furuta cycling home after she completed her low-maintenance work. Hiroshi had been searching for such a chance for as long as a couple of days. Compelled, Minato dismissed Junko from her bike and promptly ran away from the area.


Under its coincidence being the said witness of this assault, Hiroshi moved toward Junko and offered to walk her home securely. Junko acknowledged this offer, not knowing what evil thing was going on to her. She did as she was told. She was unaware that Hiroshi was driving her to a close-by stockroom, where he uncovered his Yakuza associations. That was the start of her 41 days of horrifying torments, terrible pains, and tragedies.


On January 23, 1989, Hiroshi Miyano and Jō Ogura were captured for the assault of the 19 years of age lady who they had captured in December. On March 29, two cops came to investigate them, as ladies' clothing had been found at their addresses.


During the cross-examination, one of the officials drove Hiroshi into believing that police were mindful of a homicide submitted by him. Thinking that Jo Ogura had admitted to the violations against Junko Furuta, Hiroshi advised the police where to discover Junko's body. Police officers found the drum containing Junko's body the next day. When her body was recuperated, Oronamin C bottles were found stuck on her anus. Her face was unrecognizable. Fingerprints identified her. She was likewise discovered to be pregnant, regardless of the extreme harm to her uterus.


When Junko Furuta's mom heard about what happened to her daughter, she needed to go through mental outpatient treatment due to mental trauma.


The names of four primary captors captured, tormented, assaulted, and killed Junko Furuta were retained by the Japanese court since they were teenagers. Be that as it may, the columnists from the Shukan Bunshun magazine uncovered them. They published them, expressing that they don't deserve any human rights after what they did with Junko Furuta.

After Junko's heartbreaking death, numerous individuals met up to grieve her passing, and there are songs, movies, books, and surprisingly an album collection that has been devoted to her memory.

At her graduation, Junko Furuta's school chief gave her parents her high school graduation certificate. Her companions actually discuss their experiences with her.


It was indeed painful to hear about the tragic incident that happened to Junko Furuta. Nowadays, the percentage of rape cases is slowly rising. Thus, I hope that her story will be a wake-up call to us that we should be attentive and be careful to whoever we put our trust to. Yes, you read it right, not just girls but all of us because rape doesn't know any gender nor age.


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