DAY 1: November 22, 1988: Kidnapped, Kept captive in house, and posed as one of boy’s girlfriend, Raped (over 400 times in total), Forced to call her parents and tell them she had run away, Starved and malnutritioned, Fed cockroaches to eat and urine to drink, Forced to masturbate, Forced to strip in front of others, Burned with cigarette lighters, Foreign objects inserted into her vagina/anus
DAY 11: December 1, 1988: Severely beat up countless times, Face held against concrete ground and jumped on, Hands tied to ceiling and body used as a punching bag, Nose filled with so much blood that she can only breath through her mouth, Dumbbells dropped onto her stomach, Vomited when tried to drink water (her stomach couldn’t accept it), Tried to escape and punished by cigarette burning on arms, Flammable liquid poured on her feet and legs, then lit on fire, Bottle inserted into her anus, causing injury
DAY 20: December10, 1989: Unable to walk properly due to severe leg burns, Beat with bamboo sticks, Fireworks inserted into anus and lit, hands smashed by weights and fingernails cracked, Beaten with golf club
Cigarettes inserted into vagina, Beaten with iron rods repeatedly, Winter; forced outside to sleep in balcony, Skewers of grilled chicken inserted into her vagina and anus, causing bleeding
DAY 30: Hot wax dripped onto face, Eyelids burned by cigarette lighter
Stabbed with sewing needles in chest area, Left nipple cut and destroyed with pliers, Hot light bulb inserted into her vagina, Heavy bleeding from vagina due to scissors insertion, Unable to urinate properly, Injuries were so severe that it took over an hour for her to crawl downstairs and use the bathroom, Eardrums severely damaged, Extreme reduced brain size
DAY 40: Begged her torturers to “kill her and get it over with”
January 1, 1989: Junko greets the New Years Day alone Body mutilated Unable to move from the ground
DAY 44: January 4, 1989: The four boys beat her mutilated body with an iron barbell, using a loss at the game of Mah-jongg as a pretext. She is profusely bleeding from her mouth and nose. They put a candle’s flame to her face and eyes.
Then, lighter fluid was poured onto her legs, arms, face and stomach, and then lit on fire. This final torture lasted for a time of two hours.
Junko Furuta died later that day, in pain and alone. Nothing could compare 44 days of suffering she had to go through.
When her mother heard the news and details of what had happened to her daughter, she fainted. She had to undergo a psychiatric outpatient treatment . Imagine her endless pain.
Her killers are now free men. Justice was never served, not even after 20 years. They deserve a punishment much greater than they had put upon Furuta, for putting an innocent girl through the most unbearable suffering.