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The Disturbing Case of Junko Furuta · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: A seventeen year old girl finishes her shift at a
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Speaker 1: factory in a quiet Japanese suburb and she heads home,
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Speaker 1: riding her bike through the dark streets, but she would
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Speaker 1: never arrive and for the next forty days she endures
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Speaker 1: suffering that defies comprehension. This is the case of Junco Peruta,
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Speaker 1: get back to it. Juneco Faruta came into the world
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Speaker 1: on January eighteenth, nineteen seventy one, and she was born
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Speaker 1: into a household that, while not wealthy, was rich in
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Speaker 1: terms of love. Her father, Akira, worked as a business
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Speaker 1: director at a canning factory, and her mother stayed home
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Speaker 1: to raise the children, and the family's finances were modest,
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Speaker 1: and Akira carried the weight of providing for everyone on
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Speaker 1: his shoulders. And Junko was the middle child with an
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Speaker 1: older and younger brother, and by all accounts, the Feruta
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Speaker 1: home was a happy one, and her parents encouraged Junko
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Speaker 1: to chase her dreams and she would. And Junko was
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Speaker 1: the type of girl to help her mother with chores
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Speaker 1: around the house without being asked. She was very devoted
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Speaker 1: to her family and she adored them and they adored
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Speaker 1: her back. And the Farutas lived in Bisato, a town
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Speaker 1: in Saitama Prefecture. And I just want to apologize quickly
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Speaker 1: if I'm saying anything wrong. I have all the pronunciations
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Speaker 1: up for myself, but I'm sure I'm still saying them
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Speaker 1: slightly off, so apologies in advance for that. But Saitama
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Speaker 1: sits in the southeastern part of Japan, within the Greater
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Speaker 1: Tokyo metropolitan area, but it was a relatively nice community,
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Speaker 1: and Junko would greet her neighbors politely whenever she saw them,
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Speaker 1: always considerate and respectful. So it had been clear that
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Speaker 1: she was raised right, and everyone who knew June described
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Speaker 1: her in the same way, friendly, kind, beautiful, and popular.
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Speaker 1: She had a lively spirit and a charm that just
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Speaker 1: drew people into her, and her classmates and teachers all
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Speaker 1: liked her by all accounts. Yet unlike many teenagers her age,
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Speaker 1: Junko stayed away from drinking, smoking, and drugs, and this
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Speaker 1: earned her a reputation amongst some of the rowdier kids
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Speaker 1: at school because they saw her as naive, a good girl,
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Speaker 1: if you will, and her close friends would call her
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Speaker 1: June chuan, which from my research is a term of
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Speaker 1: endearment in Japanese. But correct me if I'm wrong. But
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Speaker 1: Jimko was also known to be very generous as well,
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Speaker 1: and when she visited friends' homes, she would bring small
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Speaker 1: gifts for their families just because she could. And at
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Speaker 1: seventeen years old, Junko was a senior at Yeshio Minami
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Speaker 1: High School in the Saitama Prefecture, and she was an
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Speaker 1: excellent student. Her grades were high and her attendance was
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Speaker 1: nearly perfect. She belonged to Class three eight, a group
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Speaker 1: of forty seven students who had grown close over the years.
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Speaker 1: In that fall, her class had worked together to make
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Speaker 1: happy coats, which are traditional Japanese festival jackets, for the
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Speaker 1: school's cultural festival, and it was a memory her classmates
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Speaker 1: would hold on to in the years to come. But
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Speaker 1: Junko had a secret dream. She wanted to become an
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Speaker 1: idol singer, but it was the kind of aspiration she
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Speaker 1: only shared with her closest friends, something precious and private,
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Speaker 1: because her hobbies were quieter, simpler things like she loved
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Speaker 1: to bake and to knit, and she loved going to
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Speaker 1: the beach. And she also had a boyfriend and his name,
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Speaker 1: or at least that pseudonym used to protect his identity,
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Speaker 1: was Kawamura, and when Junko was with him, he quit
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Speaker 1: drinking and smoking because she asked him to. So clearly,
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Speaker 1: she was a great example to other people because that
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Speaker 1: was the effect she had on all the people around her. Basically,
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Speaker 1: she just made them want to be better. And just
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Speaker 1: two days before everything changed, on November twenty third, nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty eight, Junko celebrated Kowa Mura's birthday, and she gave
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Speaker 1: him a block sweater she had knitted herself, saying quote,
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Speaker 1: please wear this unquote, and she had also baked him
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Speaker 1: a cheesecake, which he later said was delicious, and they
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Speaker 1: went bowling that day and they made plans to go
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Speaker 1: skiing together that winter. So in October of nineteen eighty eight,
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Speaker 1: Junko took a part time job at a plastic molding factory,
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Speaker 1: and she also worked as a salesperson at a household
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Speaker 1: goods store because Dunko wasn't the type of person to
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Speaker 1: just sit around and let life happen, and her father
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Speaker 1: worked hard to support the family, and Junko wanted to
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Speaker 1: help him out too, because that was just the type
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Speaker 1: of person that she was. And she also wanted to
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Speaker 1: save money for a graduation trip, which is a beloved
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Speaker 1: tradition for Japanese students as they finished high school. But
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Speaker 1: Junko was thinking even further ahead, and she had already
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Speaker 1: accepted a position at an electronics retailer and after graduation,
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Speaker 1: she would begin her career there. So on November twenty fifth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, everything would change because Junko would be
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Speaker 1: finishing her shift at the plastic molding factory. She would
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Speaker 1: clock out around eight twenty in the evening and climb
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Speaker 1: onto her bike and head home through the dark streets
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Speaker 1: of Masato, and her mother was expecting her home by
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Speaker 1: around eight thirty, but by ten o'clock, Junko had not
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Speaker 1: come home, and by eleven her family was frantic and
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Speaker 1: they called her workplace, but coworkers confirmed she had left
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Speaker 1: on time, and they walked her usual route calling her
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Speaker 1: name into the night, but they found only one thing,
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Speaker 1: her bicycle lock that had been discarded near a park.
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Speaker 1: So the Peruta family reported their daughter missing the next day,
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Speaker 1: when the police took the report and made a note
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Speaker 1: in the file saying, quote, teenage rebellions are common, She'll
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Speaker 1: probably return home when she's ready unquote. That was their assessment,
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Speaker 1: and as we know, Junco was not that type of teenager.
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Speaker 1: That it is just if they thought to ask any
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Speaker 1: questions about her, they would know that, but she was
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Speaker 1: just kind of brushed aside. And meanwhile, two young men
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Speaker 1: on motorcycles had been circling the streets of Masato that
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Speaker 1: night and they were hunting as they've done multiple times before,
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Speaker 1: and when they spotted a young girl riding her bicycle
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Speaker 1: home from work, they saw exactly what they were looking for,
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Speaker 1: and four teenage boys would be responsible for what would
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Speaker 1: become one of the most heinous crimes in Japanese history.
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Speaker 1: Eighteen year old Hiroshi Miyano, seventeen year old Joe Ogura,
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Speaker 1: sixteen year old Shinji Minato, and seventeen year old Yasushi Watanabe,
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Speaker 1: and two other boys would play smaller roles, and their
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Speaker 1: names were Tetsuo Nakamura and Koichi Ihara, and they were
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Speaker 1: both sixteen. So Miyano was the oldest and the one
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Speaker 1: in charge, the ringleader, if you will, and he gave
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Speaker 1: the orders and made the decisions, and he set the
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Speaker 1: tone for everything that was going to happen, and Ogura
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Speaker 1: seemed to be the second in command, and when he
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Speaker 1: made a suggestion, Miyanu listened, and one of his suggestions
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Speaker 1: would be the one to seal Junko's fate. Yamiinato was
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Speaker 1: the youngest of four, but his family's home would become
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Speaker 1: their base of operations, and Watanabe rounded out the group
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Speaker 1: and he would play a supporting role of all the
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Speaker 1: horrific things that were going to happen to Junco so
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Speaker 1: Yanu was born on April thirtieth, nineteen seventy in a
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Speaker 1: Dashi Tokyo, and his family appeared respectable on the surface,
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Speaker 1: and his father worked at a securities company while his
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Speaker 1: mother taught piano, But there was another side to the
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Speaker 1: family because Miyano's grandfather had reportedly been a soldier with
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Speaker 1: political connections to the Yakuza and his uncle was said
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Speaker 1: to be a high ranking official within the organized crime syndicate.
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Speaker 1: And at school, Mianu was known as a bully and
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Speaker 1: he openly bragged about his Yakuza connections and whether those
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Speaker 1: ties were as strong as he said or they were exaggerated.
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Speaker 1: The reputation served him well and people were afraid of him,
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Speaker 1: and a psychological evaluation conductored later revealed that Miyanu had
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Speaker 1: a learning disability as well, and according to the assessment,
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Speaker 1: it did not not impair his brain function, but delayed
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Speaker 1: his emotional development, which I don't think is an excuse
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Speaker 1: for anything that's going to happen at all, but it's
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Speaker 1: worth note, but it would have some effect on his choices.
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Speaker 1: E Miano was living with his girlfriend at the time,
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Speaker 1: who happened to be the older sister of Yasushi Watanabe,
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Speaker 1: and she eventually ended the relationship after he joined a
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Speaker 1: gang and started committing horrible asque crimes. But all four
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Speaker 1: boys had dropped out of high school by the summer
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Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty eight. But Mianu's troubles had started long before,
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Speaker 1: and he had already been shoplifting and damaging school property
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Speaker 1: at that point, and the pattern only continued and escalated
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Speaker 1: as he got older. But Mina Too's background was different
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Speaker 1: and he was born in nineteen seventy two and his
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Speaker 1: parents were reportedly Communist Party members who raised him strictly,
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Speaker 1: But that didn't matter in the end, because by sixteen
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Speaker 1: he had fallen in with Miano's crowd and they were
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Speaker 1: scum of the earth and they would collectively become chinpira
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Speaker 1: or low ranking yakuza, essentially street level bugs, and starting
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Speaker 1: in October of nineteen eighty eight, they drove right into
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Speaker 1: a spree of criminal activities including per snatching, car theft, extortion, assaults,
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Speaker 1: and they would become serial s predators and they would
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Speaker 1: have a system. They knew how to identify targets and
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Speaker 1: most of the time they let their victims go afterward.
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Speaker 1: But Juneco would be different. So on November eighth, they
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Speaker 1: abducted a nineteen year old woman in Adachi and they
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Speaker 1: would take her to a hotel, gave her and then
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Speaker 1: let her go, And this was their pattern abduct, assault
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Speaker 1: and release. So once they had all dropped out of school,
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Speaker 1: they needed a place to hang out. Imanato offered his
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Speaker 1: family's home in Adachi and it became their base of operations.
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Speaker 1: And it was a place where the adults seemed unwilling
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Speaker 1: or unavailable to stop whatever was happening under their roof.
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Speaker 1: So they were just as complicit in my opinion, and
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Speaker 1: they operated as a unit, committing crimes together, just covering
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Speaker 1: for each other. And on the night of November twenty fifth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, Miano and Minato climbed onto their motorcycles
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Speaker 1: and they rode through the streets of Misato looking for
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Speaker 1: a woman to rob and then appear. So as we know,
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Speaker 1: Junko had just finished her shift at the plastic modeling
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Speaker 1: factory and headed home on her bike, and the streets
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Speaker 1: were dark, but she knew the way. But little did
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Speaker 1: she know that Miano and Minato were out hunting, so
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Speaker 1: as they were riding on the streets, they would spot Junco.
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Speaker 1: She was alone and she was vulnerable, just the type
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Speaker 1: of person they were looking for. And what happened next
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Speaker 1: was extremely coordinated because Miano gave the order and Minato
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Speaker 1: executed it. So as Joomco pedaled along, Minato drove his
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Speaker 1: motorcycle toward her and kicked her off her bike and
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Speaker 1: she would fall to the ground, and before she could
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Speaker 1: process what was happening, Minato sped away into the night.
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Speaker 1: His job was done. Now it was Miano's turn. So
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Speaker 1: Mianu approached Junko as if he had witnessed the attack
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Speaker 1: by a coincidence, and he played the concerned stranger helping
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Speaker 1: her to her feet, and he asked if she was okay,
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Speaker 1: and she was shaken and vulnerable, and here was this
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Speaker 1: helpful guy offering to walk her home safely, so naturally
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Speaker 1: Junko would accept. She had no way of knowing that
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Speaker 1: the stranger who had attacked her and the stranger helping
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Speaker 1: her were actually working together. So Miano walked her away
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Speaker 1: from the street, away from home and toward a nearby warehouse,
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Speaker 1: and once they reached the warehouse, the mask came off
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Speaker 1: and Miyano told Junko he was a member of the
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Speaker 1: Yakuza and he would only spare her life as she
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Speaker 1: did exactly what he said, and that is when he
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Speaker 1: would ask her for the first time and threaten to
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Speaker 1: kill her if she made any noise. And afterward, Mianu
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Speaker 1: took Junko by taxi to a hotel in Adachi where
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Speaker 1: he would at her again, and from the hotel room,
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Speaker 1: he called Minato's house and bragged to Agura about what
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Speaker 1: he had done, and any other scenario for them would
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Speaker 1: have ended there. Again, they never held their victims after
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Speaker 1: what they did what they wanted, but Agura's response would
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Speaker 1: determine everything that came next, saying, quote unquote, don't let
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Speaker 1: her leave. So around three a m. On November twenty sixth,
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Speaker 1: Mianu brought Junko to a park near the hotel and
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Speaker 1: there the three others were waiting in the darkness. Agura, Minato,
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Speaker 1: and Watanabe and they would surround her and told her
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Speaker 1: that they knew where she lived and that the yakuza
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Speaker 1: would murder her family if she tried to escape, and then,
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Speaker 1: according to some accounts, the other three boys would ask
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Speaker 1: her there in the park. So Junko was completely alone,
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Speaker 1: terrified for her life and the lives of her family,
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Speaker 1: just surrounded by her attackers in the middle of the night,
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Speaker 1: absolutely petrified. I can't even imagine how she was feeling.
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Speaker 1: But the boys needed somewhere else to take her because
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Speaker 1: they weren't done yet, and Minato offered his family house,
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Speaker 1: the same house the group had been using as a
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Speaker 1: hangout since they dropped out of school, and he agreed
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Speaker 1: to let them hold Junko in a room on the
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Speaker 1: second floor, so they smuggled her into the house under
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Speaker 1: the cover of darkness. So Junko would be held captive
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Speaker 1: and confined to a room on the second floor of
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Speaker 1: the Manato family home. And the house sat in the
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Speaker 1: Ayase district of Adachi in north central Tokyo, and it
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Speaker 1: was by all accounts, an ordinary residence in an ordinary neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: so there was really nothing to suggest the horrors that
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Speaker 1: would be happening inside. But from November twenty sixth, nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty eight to January fourth, nineteen eighty nine, Junko remained
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Speaker 1: trapped in that upstairs room. So two days after Juneko vanished,
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Speaker 1: her parents went to the police, and the boys knew
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Speaker 1: an investigation could unravel everything, so they forced Junko to
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Speaker 1: call her mother three times. She was made to pick
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Speaker 1: up the phone and perform their script. Emiano allegedly held
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Speaker 1: a knife to her throat once while she spoke, saying, quote, Mom,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I worried you. I've run away, but I'm
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Speaker 1: safe with friends. Please don't look for me unquote, and
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Speaker 1: her mother heard her daughter's voice and then the line
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Speaker 1: went dead, but it didn't sound quite right and she
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Speaker 1: was not convinced, and Junco was also forced to tell
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Speaker 1: her mother to call off the police investigation. And the
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Speaker 1: deception did work, and when police heard that the missing
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Speaker 1: girl had contacted her family, they reclassified the case as
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Speaker 1: a voluntary disappearance and the search for Junco effectively ended
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Speaker 1: before it began. So in the beginning, the boys forced
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Speaker 1: Junko to act as Manato's girlfriend when his parents were around,
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Speaker 1: and the parents, of course, did not believe the story,
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Speaker 1: and they knew something was going on, but they said nothing,
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Speaker 1: and they did nothing, and eventually the boy stopped even
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Speaker 1: bothering with the charade once it became clear that Manato's
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Speaker 1: parents weren't going to report them anyway, which just makes
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Speaker 1: me so sick to my stomach to think that these
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Speaker 1: these people didn't save this girl. It's just it's just
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Speaker 1: going to get rough from here. So forewarning. So Jumko
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Speaker 1: was not completely hidden from the world as we know,
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Speaker 1: and Manato's parents obviously knew a girl was in the
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Speaker 1: house and that she hadn't left for an extended period
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Speaker 1: of time, and Manato's brothers knew too, and the brother's
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Speaker 1: only action was to later inform Manato that Junco appeared
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Speaker 1: to be dying dying, and no one said anything. But
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Speaker 1: the parents would later offer explanations, claiming they were afraid
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Speaker 1: of their own son, that he had become increasingly violent
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Speaker 1: toward them. Then lock him up, get him investigat you'd
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Speaker 1: call the police. They could see that he's torturing something like,
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Speaker 1: I don't no, I don't know. I just this infuriates me.
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Speaker 1: This case infuriates me. But they said they feared retaliation
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Speaker 1: from Mianu and his yakuza connections, and some accounts suggest
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Speaker 1: that they were also worried about their reputation in the community,
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Speaker 1: which I'm going to assume is the biggest reason to
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Speaker 1: be honest, because you bet your sweet ass, I would
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Speaker 1: lay my life down on the line to help save
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Speaker 1: a girl that I know is being tortured. Are you
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Speaker 1: freaking kidding me? Like? I can't believe it anyway. But
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Speaker 1: the Manato family were not the only ones aware of
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Speaker 1: Juneco's presence, because at one point a boy was invited
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Speaker 1: to the house by Miano and he saw her, and
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Speaker 1: he went home and told his brother, who told their parents,
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Speaker 1: who then contacted police, and officers were dispatched to the
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Speaker 1: Manato residents. But the Manatos told police there was no
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Speaker 1: girl inside because they're pieces of shit, even offering to
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Speaker 1: let the officers look around because they had no reason
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Speaker 1: to doubt the parents. The police declares mine to search,
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Speaker 1: they left everyone failed Juneco. In the scenario, Juneco would
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Speaker 1: remain trapped upstairs and the torture would continue. All right,
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Speaker 1: back to it. And what Junco endured over those forty
20:44
Speaker 1: days defies all comprehension, because the was relentless and only
20:50
Speaker 1: got worse as the days went by. Physically, she would
20:53
Speaker 1: be ben repeatedly with fists, bamboo sticks, golf clubs, iron
20:59
Speaker 1: raw and at some points Junco would be from the
21:02
Speaker 1: ceiling and they used her as a punching bag. Not
21:06
Speaker 1: to mention, they would put dumbbells onto her, which deade
21:10
Speaker 1: her internal organs, but she would remain alive. And they
21:14
Speaker 1: would also put those weights on her hands and her fingers,
21:17
Speaker 1: which naturally would shatter her fingernails and bones. And they
21:22
Speaker 1: also her repeatedly using lighter fluid, setting multiple bottles on fire,
21:28
Speaker 1: and they would pot wax onto her face and her eyelids,
21:32
Speaker 1: and they would her chest with sewing needles. But they
21:36
Speaker 1: would her in ways too horrific to fully describe, and
21:42
Speaker 1: the was constant. They would as her as a group repeatedly,
21:48
Speaker 1: and during these they would use foreign objects, including a
21:53
Speaker 1: metal rod, a bottle, scissors, skewers, lit matches, and lit fireworks.
22:01
Speaker 1: This is a hard one to get through, sorry, and
22:03
Speaker 1: according to some accounts, as many as one hundred different
22:07
Speaker 1: men were invited to the house over the course of
22:10
Speaker 1: her captivity. They treated her suffering as entertainment, and as
22:15
Speaker 1: if theer wasn't enough, they put her psychologically as well,
22:21
Speaker 1: and they would force her to dance unclothed while playing music,
22:25
Speaker 1: and they made her do things to herself while she
22:30
Speaker 1: was in front of them, and she would remain unclothed
22:32
Speaker 1: for almost the entirety of this entire time, and sometimes
22:36
Speaker 1: they would make her stand on the balcony when it
22:38
Speaker 1: was freezing outside, and when they grew bored, they actually
22:42
Speaker 1: would put her inside a freezer for hours. And they
22:46
Speaker 1: would force her to eat live cockroaches, and would make
22:49
Speaker 1: her drink her own urine, and would make her consume
22:53
Speaker 1: large quantities of alcohol, milk, and water, and they would
22:57
Speaker 1: force her to smoke two cigarettes at once and to
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Speaker 1: inhale paint and her fumes, and they would tell her
23:03
Speaker 1: lies designed to break her spirit further, like that her
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Speaker 1: father had died in an accident, which wasn't true. I
23:11
Speaker 1: just I can't the level of evil in this specific
23:19
Speaker 1: case just it makes me physically ill. I've had to
23:23
Speaker 1: stop multiple times while filming this, So I apologize that
23:28
Speaker 1: I'm trying to keep myself together, but this one just
23:36
Speaker 1: has impacted me a lot. Not that all of them don't,
23:40
Speaker 1: it's just this one in particular has been very tough
23:44
Speaker 1: to get through. And in December, Junko would try to escape,
23:48
Speaker 1: but unfortunately she would fail because later on, during a
23:51
Speaker 1: night when her captors had gotten wasted, Juneco saw an
23:54
Speaker 1: opportunity and she crawled downstairs and found a phone and
23:58
Speaker 1: called the police. Before she could say a single word,
24:01
Speaker 1: Miano caught her and he snatched the phone away, telling
24:04
Speaker 1: the officers it was a misstyle, and the police called
24:08
Speaker 1: back to verify, but Miano assured them the call had
24:11
Speaker 1: been an accident, and the police flat out just accepted
24:14
Speaker 1: his word and didn't even check on what was going
24:17
Speaker 1: on in that flat. So Junko's desperate attempt to save
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Speaker 1: herself had fallen through, and sadly there would be consequences,
24:25
Speaker 1: and the punishment was severe and the punishment would be
24:30
Speaker 1: on fire and placing her head on concrete and stop
24:35
Speaker 1: on it, and he would punk her in the face
24:38
Speaker 1: over and over. So the message was clear there would
24:43
Speaker 1: be no escape for Junco, and within days of this
24:47
Speaker 1: sure her body was already beginning to fail, and it
24:50
Speaker 1: was around December where Junko began pleading with her captors
24:53
Speaker 1: to just end her because she could not bear anymore,
24:58
Speaker 1: because by December tenth, the on her legs were so
25:01
Speaker 1: severe that she could no longer walk properly, and after
25:04
Speaker 1: twenty days of captivity, she had lost the ability to
25:08
Speaker 1: walk entirely, and by late December, Junco was dying because
25:13
Speaker 1: she was severely malnourished because her captors had given her
25:17
Speaker 1: only small amounts of food, eventually reducing her diet to
25:21
Speaker 1: nothing but milk, and her body couldn't process even basic
25:24
Speaker 1: sustenance and dehydration caused her to vomit, which just upset
25:29
Speaker 1: her captors and led to more abit and eventually she
25:33
Speaker 1: couldn't even keep water down. Not to mention she could
25:36
Speaker 1: no longer walk, she couldn't walk to the toilet, so
25:39
Speaker 1: she just laid on the floor, too weak to move,
25:43
Speaker 1: and due to the abs, she was almost not recognizable,
25:47
Speaker 1: and her wounds were getting infected and the was covering
25:50
Speaker 1: her body had begun to rot, and the smell of
25:53
Speaker 1: decaying flesh filled the room, and the stench became so
25:57
Speaker 1: overpowering that the boys soon lost usual interest in her,
26:02
Speaker 1: which led them to go out and kidnap another nineteen
26:05
Speaker 1: year old woman on December twenty seventh instead, and it
26:09
Speaker 1: would be this crime that would eventually lead to their arrest.
26:13
Speaker 1: So the final attack would happen on January fourth, nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty nine. And the night before, Mianu had allegedly lost
26:19
Speaker 1: money playing meijong and when he woke up, he was
26:22
Speaker 1: angry and he needed an outlet, so he chose Junko,
26:27
Speaker 1: and according to court testimony, Mianu challenged her to a
26:30
Speaker 1: game of meijong that day, and this was the fortieth
26:33
Speaker 1: day of her captivity, and as we know, she could
26:36
Speaker 1: barely move at this point. Yet despite everything, Junko was
26:41
Speaker 1: barely aware enough to play, but she would actually beat
26:45
Speaker 1: him at the game, and Miano and the others went
26:49
Speaker 1: into a rage, and what followed was the most brutal
26:54
Speaker 1: at of her entire captivity, and they would repeat the
26:58
Speaker 1: abuse they had done before, with candles and wax and
27:04
Speaker 1: beams and making her drink her own and eventually she
27:09
Speaker 1: would fall onto a stereo unit and begin having convulsions.
27:13
Speaker 1: And by this point her body was so decayed that
27:17
Speaker 1: they didn't want to even touch her directly, but at
27:19
Speaker 1: this point she was bleeding heavily, so they covered their
27:23
Speaker 1: hands with plastic bags before continuing, making sure they wouldn't
27:27
Speaker 1: be stained by her blood. And this is when they
27:30
Speaker 1: would continue to her until finally Mianu doused Junco with
27:36
Speaker 1: lighter fluid and her on fire, and she apparently made
27:39
Speaker 1: weak attempts to extinguish the flames, but shortly after it happened,
27:44
Speaker 1: she would stop moving. So this final lasted approximately two
27:50
Speaker 1: hours long. So Junko had finally died from the injuries
27:54
Speaker 1: sustained during that final, and she died at approximately ten
27:58
Speaker 1: am on January fourth, nineteen eighty nine, and less than
28:02
Speaker 1: twenty four hours later, Mananto's brother called to deliver the news.
28:07
Speaker 1: The girl upstairs appeared to be dead and she would
28:10
Speaker 1: be only months away from graduating high school and achieving
28:14
Speaker 1: everything that she wanted to achieve. But these scum monsters
28:21
Speaker 1: just waste of oxygen. People took that away from her,
28:26
Speaker 1: and she'd never have the chance to realize her dreams
28:29
Speaker 1: of becoming an idle singer, and she would never go
28:32
Speaker 1: on that ski trip with her boyfriend. And these things
28:36
Speaker 1: were stolen from her by these evil human beings. But
28:40
Speaker 1: these boys did not feel any remorse for what they
28:44
Speaker 1: did to Junco, and all they felt now was fear,
28:48
Speaker 1: fear of being caught, fear of being charged with murder,
28:52
Speaker 1: And now they had to deal with her body, so
28:55
Speaker 1: they would wrap the corpse into a blanket and then
28:59
Speaker 1: stuff her into a large travel bag. But before sealing
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Speaker 1: the bag, Miano added one final item because during her captivity,
29:07
Speaker 1: Junko had mentioned something to her captors. She regretted not
29:10
Speaker 1: being able to watch the last episode of Tonbo with
29:13
Speaker 1: her family, and Miano found that videotape of the final
29:17
Speaker 1: episode and placed it in the bag alongside her body.
29:22
Speaker 1: And he would later claim he did not do this
29:24
Speaker 1: out of pity or remorse. He was just afraid she
29:27
Speaker 1: would come back as a ghost to haunt him and
29:31
Speaker 1: this travel bag wouldn't be enough, So the boys got
29:34
Speaker 1: a fifty five gallon metal drum and put the travel
29:37
Speaker 1: bag containing Junco's body inside, and they filled it with
29:41
Speaker 1: wet concrete to seal her away, fully hidden from discovery,
29:45
Speaker 1: or so they hoped. Now the drum needed to disappear,
29:49
Speaker 1: so they found a spot to hide it, and they
29:51
Speaker 1: found a vacant lot near a construction site on the
29:54
Speaker 1: island of Wakasu in Koto, Tokyo, and it was a
29:57
Speaker 1: popular illegal dumping ground for all sorts of junk like refrigerators,
30:02
Speaker 1: washing machines, rusted equipment. Surely, one more oil drum wouldn't
30:07
Speaker 1: attract any attention, they thought. So. On January fifth, nineteen
30:10
Speaker 1: eighty nine, the day after Junco passed away, the boys
30:14
Speaker 1: loaded the concrete filled drum into a vehicle and at
30:17
Speaker 1: approximately eight pm they dumped it in that vacant lot
30:20
Speaker 1: among the other discarded items, and they drove away. So
30:24
Speaker 1: Junco had been reduced to garbage, left to be forgotten
30:28
Speaker 1: and junko for Ruta's body lay encased in concrete for
30:32
Speaker 1: nearly three months, and no one found her because no
30:36
Speaker 1: one was looking. As far as the police were concerned,
30:39
Speaker 1: she had just run away from home. Case closed and
30:42
Speaker 1: the discovery would come not through investigation but by an
30:45
Speaker 1: accidental slip of the tongue. So in early nineteen eighty nine,
30:49
Speaker 1: police caught up with Miano and Agura and the woman
30:52
Speaker 1: they had abducted. On December twenty seventh, while Junco was
30:55
Speaker 1: still suffering in the upstairs room, went to the police,
30:58
Speaker 1: and on January twenty three, nineteen eighty nine, Miano and
31:01
Speaker 1: Ugura were arrested for the kidnapping and es of this woman,
31:06
Speaker 1: and they were in custody and facing charges. But nobody
31:10
Speaker 1: knew about Jumco, the girl they threw away, at least
31:13
Speaker 1: not yet. So two months passed and on March twenty ninth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, two police officers arrived to question Miano
31:20
Speaker 1: and Ugura further, and during searches of their residences, investigators
31:24
Speaker 1: had discovered women's underwear and they wanted answers because they
31:28
Speaker 1: were investigating a different murder. A woman and her seven
31:31
Speaker 1: year old son had been killed nine days before Junco's
31:35
Speaker 1: abduction and the case remained unsolved. So during the interrogation,
31:39
Speaker 1: the officers mentioned this was an open murder investigation, and
31:42
Speaker 1: they meant the mother and son, but Miano heard something
31:46
Speaker 1: else and he panicked, believing Augura had already confessed to
31:49
Speaker 1: killing Jumco. He assumed the police knew everything, and as
31:53
Speaker 1: we know, he was wrong, so, thinking the game was over,
31:57
Speaker 1: Miano told the officers where to find the body, and
32:00
Speaker 1: the police were confused since they were still asking about
32:03
Speaker 1: a completely different crime. But now they knew and it
32:06
Speaker 1: couldn't be taken back. So Miano had accidentally turned himself
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Speaker 1: in for the murder of Jumco Feruta and the police
32:14
Speaker 1: were recovering the body. So armed with Miano's confession, investigators
32:18
Speaker 1: went to Wakasu and they found the vacant lot and
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Speaker 1: the fifty five gallon trum and on March twenty ninth,
32:24
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty nine police recovered Junco's body and that's
32:28
Speaker 1: when they would break through the concrete, extracting the travel
32:31
Speaker 1: bag and the blanket wrapped around her remains and the
32:35
Speaker 1: videotape of Tombo. And when they weighed her body, it
32:38
Speaker 1: registered just forty four kilograms approximately ninety seven pounds, and
32:43
Speaker 1: visual identification at this point was impossible since Junko's face
32:48
Speaker 1: had been beaten so severely, not to mention, the weeks
32:51
Speaker 1: of decompositions sealed in concrete left nothing recognizable of the
32:56
Speaker 1: girl who had once smiled in pictures, so investigators were
32:59
Speaker 1: turned to her fingerprints and they confirmed her identity, and
33:02
Speaker 1: the autopsy revealed the full extent of what she had suffered,
33:06
Speaker 1: and it also revealed that Junko had been pregnant at
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Speaker 1: the time of her death, making the situation just that
33:14
Speaker 1: much more horrific. So the investigation moved quickly after Miano's confession,
33:19
Speaker 1: and on April first, nineteen eighty nine, Ogura was arrested
33:22
Speaker 1: for yet another spy, and he was subsequently re arrested
33:26
Speaker 1: for his role in Djuco's murder. Amanato and Watanabi were
33:30
Speaker 1: taken into custody shortly after. Amanato's brother, who had known
33:34
Speaker 1: what was happening and did nothing, was also arrested, and
33:37
Speaker 1: Tetsuo Nakamura and Koichi Ihara were identified as participants in
33:42
Speaker 1: the sp as well, because DNA evidence found on and
33:46
Speaker 1: inside Junko's body confirmed their involvement, and prosecutors decided that
33:50
Speaker 1: Nakamura and Ihara would face charges of only and the
33:55
Speaker 1: four main perpetrators would face the full weight of Japanese
33:59
Speaker 1: justice for juvenile offenders for her confinement and murder, so
34:02
Speaker 1: the first trial began in July thirty first of nineteen
34:05
Speaker 1: eighty nine in Tokyo, and under Japanese law at the time,
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Speaker 1: anyone under twenty was considered a juvenile, and this meant
34:12
Speaker 1: that all four main perpetrators qualified, but the court would
34:16
Speaker 1: hide their identities at the time, and in official documents
34:19
Speaker 1: they became letters. Miano was A, Ogura was B, Menato
34:25
Speaker 1: was c In, Watanabe was D. But Junko Feruta received
34:30
Speaker 1: no such protection, and she was reportedly designated as E.
34:35
Speaker 1: But that anonymity ultimately meant nothing for Dunco. Her real
34:40
Speaker 1: name and photograph were splashed across every newspaper and television
34:43
Speaker 1: program in Japan. So the court protected the identities of
34:47
Speaker 1: the killers, but it did not protect the identity of
34:50
Speaker 1: their victim. But luckily, given the severity of the crime,
34:54
Speaker 1: the four boys were actually tried as adults in Tokyo's
34:57
Speaker 1: District Criminal Court, and this was very rare for juvenile offenders.
35:01
Speaker 1: But even that exemption came with caveats, because the court
35:05
Speaker 1: still granted them protections normally reserved for juveniles, which is
35:10
Speaker 1: juvenile honestly, and the trial itself was difficult to endure,
35:14
Speaker 1: and as prosecutors described what had been done to Junco.
35:18
Speaker 1: Some people in the courtroom fainted, but all foreign defendants
35:21
Speaker 1: entered guilty, please, but not to murder. They instead pleaded
35:26
Speaker 1: guilty to committing bodily injury that resulted in death. And
35:30
Speaker 1: this distinction mattered in terms of intent, because murder implied
35:34
Speaker 1: intent to kill. Bodily injury resulting in death suggested something
35:38
Speaker 1: less deliberate, and thereby earned a lesser sentence because somehow
35:42
Speaker 1: forty days of systematic torture only added up to bodily
35:47
Speaker 1: injury that resulted in death in the eyes of the
35:50
Speaker 1: law of Japan. So on July twentieth, nineteen ninety, the
35:54
Speaker 1: court announced its verdict and Mianu, the ringleader who orchestrated
35:58
Speaker 1: the abduction, led thee torture and Junco on Fire, received
36:03
Speaker 1: seventeen years. That's it. That's disgusting. And during his trial,
36:11
Speaker 1: a prosecutor reportedly told him that if he had committed
36:14
Speaker 1: the crime just a short while later, when he was
36:17
Speaker 1: no longer a juvenile in the eyes of the law,
36:19
Speaker 1: he would have faced the death penalty. Yet he was
36:22
Speaker 1: being tried as an adult, but they still treated him
36:24
Speaker 1: as a juvenile. It will never make sense to me,
36:26
Speaker 1: and I think it is abhorrent, and Miano's response was cold, saying, quote,
36:31
Speaker 1: in this country, there is no chance to do something
36:34
Speaker 1: like this other than when you are a minor unquote,
36:38
Speaker 1: and he dismissed Junco with indifference. She quote was just
36:42
Speaker 1: unlucky enough to get caught unquote. And Aga, who told
36:47
Speaker 1: Mianu not to let her go, received five to ten years,
36:52
Speaker 1: and Manato, who supplied the torture room, received five to
36:57
Speaker 1: six years, and Watanabe, still a full participant in everything
37:02
Speaker 1: that they did to her, received three to four years.
37:06
Speaker 1: The the defendants were not satisfied. They wanted even less time,
37:12
Speaker 1: so Miyano, Manato, and Watanabe appealed their sentences, and the
37:16
Speaker 1: appeals went to the Tokyo High Court, and the higher
37:19
Speaker 1: court disagreed with the original sentences, but not in the
37:23
Speaker 1: way the defendants hoped. The Tokyo High Court instead increased
37:28
Speaker 1: the punishments. Luckily, Miyano's sentence was raised for seventeen years
37:33
Speaker 1: to twenty still not enough, which is the longest sentence
37:37
Speaker 1: typically handed down in Japan, short of life imprisonment. Manato's
37:41
Speaker 1: sentence was increased to five to nine years, and what
37:44
Speaker 1: to not by sentence was increased to five to seven years,
37:47
Speaker 1: and the presiding judge, Riuji Yanase explained the court's reasoning
37:53
Speaker 1: the sentences were increased because of the nature of the
37:55
Speaker 1: crime and the effect on the victim's family and the
37:58
Speaker 1: broader effects on society. Now, Watanabe appealed to Japan's Supreme Court,
38:03
Speaker 1: and in July of nineteen ninety two, his appeal was denied.
38:06
Speaker 1: The sentences were final. All right, let's take a quick
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Speaker 1: And let's get back to it. So, how did the
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Speaker 1: perpetrators of one of the most horrific crimes in Japanese
39:32
Speaker 1: just the history of the world received such lenient sentences. Well,
39:37
Speaker 1: Japan's juvenile law was built on rehabilitation. The goal was
39:42
Speaker 1: not to punish young offenders, but to educate and reform them,
39:46
Speaker 1: and there was also something known as the Nagayama standard
39:49
Speaker 1: and under Japanese legal precedent, the death penalty was rarely
39:53
Speaker 1: applied in cases with only one victim, and law professor
39:57
Speaker 1: Hiroshi Itakura later explained the the difference between this case
40:01
Speaker 1: and Harsher sentences came down to victim count and demonstrable premeditation,
40:07
Speaker 1: and in the Feruta case, the court found that the
40:09
Speaker 1: intent to kill was uncertain, the torture had escalated over time,
40:14
Speaker 1: and death had been the results, but perhaps not the
40:17
Speaker 1: original goal. Who the fuck cares they killed her? They to,
40:23
Speaker 1: I just don't. This case infuriates me and makes me
40:29
Speaker 1: so incredibly sad, like it's ugh the world is that
40:34
Speaker 1: can be a disgusting place. Despite the ever escalating brutality,
40:38
Speaker 1: the court wasn't sure if they had meant to kill
40:41
Speaker 1: her or not. Amana's defense also presented additional mitigating factors,
40:46
Speaker 1: like the psychological evaluation showing his learning disability no words,
40:52
Speaker 1: and his parents reportedly sold their home and paid fifty
40:55
Speaker 1: million yen roughly three hundred and fifty thousand dollars at
40:58
Speaker 1: the time incompensation, and some would later argue that Miyano's
41:02
Speaker 1: Yakuza affiliations influenced the verdict they received at trial. Lessening
41:06
Speaker 1: their sentences to be far too lenient compared to what
41:10
Speaker 1: they should have been, and naturally, the sentences ignited a
41:13
Speaker 1: firestorm and legal professionals were divided, and a survey by
41:18
Speaker 1: the Asashi Shimbun newspaper found that a majority of lawyers
41:21
Speaker 1: and judges considered the sentences appropriate based on precedent, but
41:26
Speaker 1: the public felt different. Citizens were outraged, rightfully so, and
41:31
Speaker 1: Tokyo's police department and courts received a wave of letters
41:34
Speaker 1: and calls demanding life imprisonment or the death penalty, and
41:38
Speaker 1: newspapers published editorials calling the verdict a failure of justice,
41:43
Speaker 1: and victims' rights organizations demanded reforms to Japan's juvenile laws.
41:48
Speaker 1: And though the court had sealed the perpetrator's names and
41:51
Speaker 1: not everyone agreed with the law, a journalist from Shukan
41:54
Speaker 1: Bunshun magazine uncovered the identities of all four perpetrators thankfully,
42:00
Speaker 1: and on April twentieth, nineteen eighty nine, they published the names.
42:03
Speaker 1: We need somebody like this for the Epstein files seriously,
42:07
Speaker 1: and Kuzu Yoshi Hanada, the editor in chief, later explained
42:11
Speaker 1: the decision, saying, quote, to make a long story short,
42:14
Speaker 1: we decided that beasts don't have human rights unquote, couldn't
42:19
Speaker 1: have said it better myself, and Hanada acknowledged that publishing
42:22
Speaker 1: the name's violated juvenile protection law, but there were no
42:26
Speaker 1: penalty regulations in place to punish them for doing so. Luckily,
42:29
Speaker 1: and the boys' names became public and the whole nation
42:32
Speaker 1: now knew who they were. So Miyano served his full
42:35
Speaker 1: twenty year sentence and walked out of prison in two
42:38
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, and he's thirty nine years old at
42:42
Speaker 1: the time, and he changed his last name to Yoko
42:44
Speaker 1: Yama in an attempt to create a fresh start under
42:47
Speaker 1: a new identity. So there you go. Now you know
42:50
Speaker 1: his name here it is on screen. And the man
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Speaker 1: who emerged from prison shocker was not reformed, and in
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Speaker 1: January twenty thirteen, Yokoyama was arrest on suspicion of bank
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Speaker 1: fraud in placing scam phone calls, and he refused to
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Speaker 1: speak during questioning, and without sufficient evidence, he walked free again.
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Speaker 1: And reports paint a picture of a man living well
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Speaker 1: despite his past, and he wears expensive clothing and drives
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Speaker 1: at BMW And according to a journalist who spoke with
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Speaker 1: Jo say seven magazine. He often visits a kickboxing gym
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Speaker 1: surrounded by followers, and he takes them to barbecue parties
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Speaker 1: and hostess clubs. And Mayano consistently boasts about his continued
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Speaker 1: ties to the Yukuza, and he brags about his involvement
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Speaker 1: in pyramid screams and multi level marketing operations. So basically,
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Speaker 1: he is still the monster that he was years and
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Speaker 1: years ago, and he is just walking free. But the
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Speaker 1: ring leader of Junco's torture and murder is just living freely.
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Speaker 1: And I hope to God that karma comes from or
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Speaker 1: Junco's ghost for him, because he deserves nothing. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: deserve air. And Joe Ogura was released in August nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety nine, and he changed his last name to Kamisaku,
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Speaker 1: so this is his name now. And at first it
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Speaker 1: seemed like he might build a normal life, and in
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Speaker 1: two thousand he married and moved to Chibei Prefecture, though
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Speaker 1: the marriage did not last, and then his past would
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Speaker 1: catch up with him and his colleagues discovered who he
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Speaker 1: really was, which caused him to lose his job and
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Speaker 1: reconnect with the Yakuza. And in July two thousand and four,
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Speaker 1: he committed another violent crime, and Kamisaku believed a twenty
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Speaker 1: seven year old acquaintance named Takatoshi Isono was involved with
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Speaker 1: his girlfriend, so he abducted Isono, forcing him into a
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Speaker 1: trunk of a car, and driving the man to his
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Speaker 1: mother's bar in Misato, where he beat him for four hours,
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Speaker 1: and during he told his victim that he had killed before,
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Speaker 1: and he said that he knew how to get away
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Speaker 1: with it. So Kamisaku was sentenced to four y years
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Speaker 1: in prison for this offense, and after his release in
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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, he lived alone in an apartment
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Speaker 1: in Saitama, surviving on welfare, and his father allegedly wanted
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Speaker 1: to give his life savings to Junko's family out of shame.
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Speaker 1: The only good person in the story basically besides Junko
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Speaker 1: and her family, but being the piece of shit that
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Speaker 1: Kamisaku was, took that money and spent it on himself,
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Speaker 1: and his mother allegedly vandalized Junco's grave, stating that Junco
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Speaker 1: had ruined her son's life, so she's a piece of shit.
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Speaker 1: It just illustrates the twisted influence she had on her son.
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Speaker 1: But Kamisaku would luckily die on July sixteenth of two
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Speaker 1: thousand and two, at fifty one years old, and his
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Speaker 1: head would become wedged between the toilet bowl and a tank,
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Speaker 1: and heked on his own vomit, so fitting death for
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Speaker 1: this piece of shit human being. Now. Manato was released
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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight, and he moved in with his
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Speaker 1: mother and years past without incident. Then in twenty eighteen,
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Speaker 1: you resurfaced. Amnato was arrested of suspicion of attempted murder,
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Speaker 1: and during a dispute over a parking spot in Kawaguchi, Satama,
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Speaker 1: he struck a thirty two year old man in the
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Speaker 1: shoulder with a metal baton and slashed the man's neck
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Speaker 1: with another And when police arrested him, he said, quote,
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Speaker 1: I certainly sipped and beat him, but I did not
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Speaker 1: intend to kill him unquote, and he told officers he
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Speaker 1: kept the knife and baton in his vehicle for self protection.
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Speaker 1: And the arrest should have been major news considering one
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Speaker 1: of Junko's killers had attempted murder nearly three decades later,
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Speaker 1: but the story received almost no mainstream attention, and Shukan
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Speaker 1: Shincho noted that virtually no outlets reported that Manato was
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Speaker 1: one of the four men who killed Junco, and in
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Manato was sentenced to one year and six
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Speaker 1: months for attempted murder and he was suspended with probation
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Speaker 1: for three years. Now. Watanabe was released in nineteen ninety six,
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Speaker 1: and of the four, his path was the most different.
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Speaker 1: He moved into an apartment with his mother in Tokyo,
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Speaker 1: living in isolation, rarely leaving his locked room, and he
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Speaker 1: had withdrawn from the world entirely. And by two thousand
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Speaker 1: and five, Watanabe had developed a neurodegenerative disease, but his
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Speaker 1: family could not afford treatment, and his mother described his
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Speaker 1: condition as a disease that quote unquote turned his brain
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Speaker 1: into a sponge wampamp and Watanabe died in May of
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one at forty nine years old, and he
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Speaker 1: was the only one of the four who did not
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Speaker 1: commit additional crimes after release that we know of. You know,
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Speaker 1: I don't trust the system at all. So whether this
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Speaker 1: was due to reform, his deteriorating health, or his complete
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Speaker 1: withdrawal from society is impossible to know. And Nakamura and
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Speaker 1: Ihara had both been sixteen when they participated in the
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Speaker 1: os so they were sent to juvenile detention and were
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Speaker 1: both released by two thousand and In the years that followed,
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Speaker 1: both got married and had children, and according to reports,
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Speaker 1: they disclosed their involvement in the case to their spouses.
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Speaker 1: So three of the four main perpetrators committed additional crimes
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Speaker 1: after release. And though the Japanese juvenile justice system was
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Speaker 1: built on rehabilitation, the Junko for Ruta case put that
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Speaker 1: belief to the test, and it failed, and an article
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Speaker 1: in Shukan Shincho described the subsequent arrests with a single phrase,
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Speaker 1: a defeat of the juvenile law. So Junko Faruta's funeral
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Speaker 1: was held on April second, nineteen eighty nine, and had
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Speaker 1: she lived, the very next day would have been her
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Speaker 1: first day of work at the electronics retailer that had
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Speaker 1: hired her, And during the ceremony, one of her friends
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Speaker 1: delivered a eulogy written by her classmates, saying, quote, the
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Speaker 1: happy we made for the cultural festival looked wonderful on you.
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Speaker 1: I'll never forget that unquote, And they acknowledged her suffering,
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Speaker 1: expressed grief, and made a promise a vow to fight
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Speaker 1: for a world where such crimes could never happen again,
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Speaker 1: and the electronics retailer brought the uniform Junko would have worn,
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Speaker 1: and her parents placed it in her casket, and at graduation,
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Speaker 1: the principal presented Junko's diploma to her parents, and all
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Speaker 1: forty seven students in the class three eight graduated together
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Speaker 1: with her name among them. And the impact on those
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Speaker 1: closest to Junko was devastating because after her mother learned
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Speaker 1: the full details of what had been done to her daughter,
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Speaker 1: she reportedly had to be admitted to psychiatric hospital, and
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Speaker 1: Juko's boyfriend Kawamura, did not attend the funeral because he
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Speaker 1: could not bring himself to go, and instead he went
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Speaker 1: to the place where her body had been dumped, and
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Speaker 1: after her death he started drinking and smoking again, and
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Speaker 1: years later he spoke about the perpetrators saying, quote, I
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Speaker 1: remember their faces and when they come out, I want
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Speaker 1: to kill them in the same eye unquote. But the
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Speaker 1: criminal sentences had left Junko's family feeling betrayed because the
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Speaker 1: price Japan's court placed on their daughter's life was far
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Speaker 1: too small, but criminal court was not their only recourse
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Speaker 1: and the Paruta family filed a civil lawsuit against Minato's
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Speaker 1: parents because the crimes had occurred in their home and
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Speaker 1: they did absolutely nothing about it. And the Paruta family
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Speaker 1: won and the court awarded them fifty million yen and
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Speaker 1: to pay the judgment, the Manato family was forced to
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Speaker 1: sell their home, but of course the money could never
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Speaker 1: restore what had been taken, but at least it was something.
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Speaker 1: But the murder of Junko Feruta is considered the worst
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Speaker 1: case of juvenile crime in Japan's postwar history, and the
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Speaker 1: case forced Japanese society to confront uncomfortable realities. Four teenagers
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Speaker 1: had committed acts that defied comprehension, and the case also
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Speaker 1: raised awareness about issues beyond this single crime, things like bullying,
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Speaker 1: violence among young people, and the importance of bystander intervention.
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Speaker 1: And over a dozen people had known about Junko's captivity,
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Speaker 1: yet none of them saved her. Online memorials continue to
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Speaker 1: remember June Coo, emphasizing something extremely important. She was not
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Speaker 1: just a victim. She was a person with dreams, a
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Speaker 1: family and friends who love her. The memorials ask us
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Speaker 1: to remember Junko as she lived and not as she died,
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Speaker 1: and that is how I will choose to remember her,
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Speaker 1: and I hope that is how you will choose to
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Speaker 1: remember her for the wonderful human being that she was.
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Speaker 1: But that is the end of the case. If you
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Speaker 1: have any other cases you want me to deep dive
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Speaker 1: into you let me know down below. I always read
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Speaker 1: the comments, and take care of yourself, please, and your
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Speaker 1: mental health. But yeah, stay safe out there and I
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Speaker 1: will see you beautiful face in the next one. All
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Speaker 1: right Bye.