Tuesday, June 1, 2004, at Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan would be unlike any other before it. At lunchtime that day, 11-year-old Natsumi Tsuji invited her classmate and friend, 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai, into an empty classroom where she promised to show her a new game. Under the guise of walking her through how […]
There are stories that let Dante’s inferno look like Disneyland, Junko Furuta’s “Forty-Four Days of Hell” is one of them. Unfortunately, this murder is far from being a twisted tale. In 1988, a sixteen-year-old girl called Junko Furuta was kidnapped by her classmates in Tokyo. After spending forty-four days captive under brutal tortures, she was […]
This story is a horribly gruesome one. All murders are terrible, but the murder of Junko Furuta takes it to a whole other level of terror. The hardship Junko had to endure before her life was snuffed out was unbelievably cruel. It’s the kind of crime that makes you wonder how such horrible human beings […]
This is a real story that can leave you shattered. This spine-chilling story is about a 17-year old Japanese girl, Junko Furuta who was kidnapped, raped, tortured like hell for 44 days, and finally killed in an extremely brutal way by four boys after 44 days in the year 1988. Her body was discovered in […]
Junko Furuta was tortured for 44 days in the home of her classmate and then was murdered for beating her captors in mahjong. As far as Shinji Minato’s parents were concerned, Junko Furuta was their son’s girlfriend. The pretty young girl hung around with their son so often it seemed as if she were living […]
Yesterday marked the 31th anniversary of the death of Junko Furuta. She was murdered on the 4th of January 1989, after having been kept captive and tortured for 41 days. Back then I was working in Tokyo. I remember reading the newspaper about the murder which was known as THE CONCRETE-ENCASED HIGH SCHOOL GIRL MURDER […]
