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Junko Furuta Story

Junko Furuta attended a high school in Misato, in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She was a good-looking, active teenager who enjoyed a lot of attention, which made some people jealous. She did not smoke, did not drink alcohol, and did not do drugs, which was seen as very uncool in the eyes of more gangster-like teens. One of them – Hiroshi Miyano, had a crush on her but not looking for a relationship. Junko Furuta turned him down. Hiroshi Miyano was the bully in the school and involved with the new generations of the Yakuza, nobody dared to oppose him. And Junko Furuta had the nerve to say "No".

On November 25, 1988, she was kidnapped by four teenage boys, one of them was Hiroshi Miyano. The boys took Junko Furuta to the house owned by one of the kidnappers' parents in the Ayase district of Adachi, Tokyo.