Junko Furuta Murderers Where Are They Now? Where Are Junko Furuta Murderers Now?

Who Was Junko Furuta? 

In the late 1980s, Junko Furuta, a Japanese high school girl, was kidnapped, raped, tortured, and killed. Because her corpse was discovered in a concrete drum, her murder case was dubbed the “concrete-encased high school girl murder case.” Hiroshi Miyano, J Ogura, Shinji Minato, and Yasushi Watanabe, four adolescent guys, mostly conducted the abuse over a 40-day period from November 1988 to January 1989. 

Furuta was born in the Saitama Prefecture town of Misato. Her parents, older brother, and younger brother all resided with her. Since October 1988, she has worked part-time in a plastic molding factory during after-school hours while attending Yashio-Minami High School. She did it in order to save money for a graduation vacation she was planning.  Furuta also accepted a job offer from an electronics shop, which she expected to start the following graduation. Furuta was well-liked by her peers in high school, with good marks and few absences. She was a popular girl with attractive features who aspired to be an idol singer.

On April 2, 1989, Junko Furuta was laid to rest. Furuta’s prospective future employer gave her parents the uniform she would have worn if she had taken the post. The outfit was stuffed inside her coffin. Furuta’s school principal awarded her with a high school diploma, which she gave to her parents at her graduation. Since then, the area around Furuta’s body has been developed and is now known as Wakasu Park.

Junko Furuta Murderers Where Are They Now?

Hiroshi Miyano, 18, J Ogura, 17, Shinji Minato, 16, and Yasushi Watanabe, 17, were the perpetrators, who were referred to in court records as “A”, “B”, “C”, and “D” correspondingly. They were using the second floor of Minato’s house as a hangout at the time of the incident and had previously committed crimes such as purse stealing, extortion, and rape as chimpira. The lads’ identities were kept hidden by the court since they were all minors at the time of the crime. However, their identities were found and publicized by journalists from the Shūkan Bunshun magazine. They claimed that the accused did not deserve to have their right to anonymity protected because of the seriousness of the offense. Instead of murder, all four boys pleaded guilty to “causing bodily injury that ended in death.”

Who Are The Murderers Of Junko Furuta? 

Hiroshi Miyano, who was eighteen years old at the time of the crime and afterward changed his identity to Hiroshi Yokoyama, was one of the young guys who murdered Junko Futura. Jo Ogura, who was eighteen at the time of the crime and is now known as Jo Kamisaku, was also eighteen at the time of the crime. Finally, at the time of the crime, Shinji Minato was sixteen years old (some sources refer to him as Nobuharu Minato) and Yasushi Watanabe was seventeen years old.

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Because the murderers were all adolescents, the court granted each of the rapists/perpetrators inexplicably short penalties. Hiroshi Miyano, for example, received a twenty-year sentence, Shinji Minato received a five-to-nine-year term, Jo Ogura received an eight-year prison, and Yasushi Watanabe received a five-to-seven-year sentence. Each of them has been freed from prison at this point. Currently, nothing is known about the offenders; nonetheless, all four have been arrested again for various offenses such as fraud, violence, and so on; however, we have no idea what they are up to or whether they have been freed.

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