Episode 19: Concrete-Encased Schoolgirl Murder

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Jul 20, 2026 · 13m

She was seventeen years old, cycling home from a part-time job on a November evening in suburban Saitama. A few minutes from her front door. An ordinary Tuesday night in 1988. She never made it home. What happened next unfolded inside a house in Tokyo — over 44 days, beneath the notice of a city of millions. Adults lived in the same building. They heard what was happening. They said nothing. When Junko Furuta's body was finally found, it was encased in concrete inside a steel drum, abandoned in a vacant lot near the bay. The case is considered the worst act of juvenile violence in Japan's…