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Junko Furuta: The Crime That Japan Wants to Forget

  The Vanishing Innocence It was a chilly autumn evening in Misato, Japan, 1988. The streets were buzzing, neon lights illuminated the city, and the atmosphere was filled with laughter and conversation. Among the millions of Japanese citizens going about their ordinary lives was a seventeen-year-old girl named Junko Furuta, a diligent and diligent young girl with dreams of a good future.  She was famous for her goodness, diligence, and tirelessness. But within days, she would vanish into the depths, buried under an ocean of savagery beyond imagination. November 25th evening was just the usual for Junko. She had finished working in a part-time job and was returning home without having an inkling of what terror was in store for her. She made a wrong move and was standing directly in front of her worst nightmare—four cliques of teenagers, led by notorious Hiroshi Miyano, a delinquent local youth with Yakuza affiliations. The scheme was set in motion. A boy, Shinji Minato, on Miya...