Hiroshi Miyano

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## Hiroshi Miyano

### Occupation

Student (formerly)
Tile worker (formerly)
Terrorist
Gangster

### Goals

Kidnap and rape a woman. (succeeded)
Join to the Yakuza. (possibly succeeded)

### Crimes

Murder
Serial rape
Serial torture
False imprisonment
Kidnapping
Coercion
Misogyny
Death threat
Crimes against humanity

### Type of Villain

Perverted Psychopath

> *"I like to tie a woman with a 100-square rope.*"
> ~Hiroshi Miyano
>
>

**Hiroshi Miyano** [*Japanese:* 宮野 裕史; April 30, 1970 (now known as **Hiroshi Yokoyama**)] is one of the four boys who murdered 17 year-old high school student Junko Furuta after torturing and raping her for 40 days along with Jō Kamisaku, Nobuharu Minato and Yasushi Watanabe. The group had a history of gang-rape, extortion and pickpocketting. He is seen as the lead perpetrator of this case. He was 18 at the time of the murder.

The case has been described as the worst case of juvenile delinquency in post-war Japan. The incident received attention not only in Japan but also worldwide. The case is also known as "concrete-encased high school girl murder case" in Japan, since Furuta's body was discovered in a concrete drum.

It's said in English sources that Miyano, who was known as a bully at school had a crush on Junko Furuta but she rejected him in front of the class. But this is misinformation because Miyano dropped out of school. Also no Japanese source mentions this.

## Biography

His father was a member of a securities company and his mother was a piano teacher. Since his parents were busy with their work, Miyano always take private lessons since his childhood raised by his grandparents. Because of that his relationship with his parents was not good. His parents tried to satisfy him materially and financially, they did not give him a proper education.

He stole from shops and damaged school property and was expelled from school. He practiced judo diligently but quit the judo club after entering high school due to personality problems and his inability to adapt to group life and strict training. After that, he became keen on participating in fights, extortion and brawls. He enrolled in a private high school in Tokyo in April 1986, but dropped out the following year.

It is alleged that once, when his mother did not buy the bento he liked, Miyano got angry and broke his mother's bones. Miyano, who was kicked out of the house by his father, joined a criminal organization, became addicted to drugs and began to live by extortion and robbery. He began to form a criminal group called the "Extreme Youth Club" with other delinquent teenagers and middle school dropouts, and gradually became the leader and leader of the gang.

Hiroshi Miyano's ex girlfriend was Yasushi Watanabe's sister. He was living with her at the time of the crime and was earning money by working as a tile worker in order to marry her. But when Miyano involved in gangs and committed some sex crimes she ended her relationship with him.

## 40 Days in Hell

On November 25, 1988, Miyano and Minato were at Misato with the intentions for robbing and raping a woman. Then they spotted Furuta, who was returning home by bicycle after her part-time job at a plastic molding factory. Minato kicked Furuta off her bike, Miyano pretended to be passing by chance and offered to accompany her home. He turned off the road to Furuta's house threated her by saying he is a member of Yakuza and forced her into a warehouse. After raping her, he raped her in a nearby hotel again. At the hotel he called his friends ,Jō Kamisaku, Nobuharu Minato and Yasushi Watanabe, bragged about what he did. Kamisaku asked Miyano to keep Furuta in captivity in order to gang rape her. They kidnapped Furuta to a house owned by Minato's parents. They forced Furuta call her family and tell them she's staying with a friend.

During 40 days they repeatedly raped her, beated her to death, starved her, urinated on her, forced her to eat cockroaches, mutilated her left nipple, inserted objects to her vagina including a firework that they fired, burned her legs and arms, jumped on her head, hang her from the ceiling and beated her like a punching bag, forced her to sleep at the cold balcony and committed other torture methods on her. She was naked most of the time and the boys masturbated in front of her. Once, when Junko managed to call the police, they burned her feet. Furuta was in so much pain that she begged them to kill her now.

On the day that she was kidnapped, Furuta wanted to watch the last episode of a television program called *Tonbo (Dragonfly)*. She kept talking about it while she was being held captive, and Miyano found the videotape of the episode. Miyano didn't do this out of pity for her, but because he was afraid that Furuta would haunt him as a ghost after her death.

Miyano invited other Yakuza members to the house. It's reported that Furuta was raped more than 400 times by more than 100 men. Minato's parents were knew about Furuta but they said they didn't do anything because they were afraid of their son. Furuta's eardrums were damaged and her brain was reduced.

On January 4, 1989, the boys beated Junko with a barbell bar, due to losing in a mahjong game, tortured Junko for 2 hours, then put candles to her mouth and eyes, poured flammable liquid on her body and burned her. Furuta died as a result of loss of body fluids. The killers threw her body to a barrel and poured 55 gallons of cement on it and threw the barrel in the Koto area.

On January 23, 1989, Miyano and Ogura were arrested for the gang-rape of the 19 year-old girl whom they had kidnapped in december, because of Furuta's scarred body no longer appealed to them sexually. He thought that they were arrested for their crimes against Furuta, thought that Ogura admitted everything to the police and told the cops where did they found the body.

The barrel was found by the police and the murderers were caught. Furuta's mother, who saw the news about her daughter on television, was taken into a severe psychological treatment process.

## Trial

The juvenile delinquents were caught and tried as adults; However, due to the rules governing crimes committed by children, the identities of the criminals were hidden by the court and referred them as Boy A (Miyano), Boy B (Ogura), Boy C (Minato) and Boy D (Watanabe). The magazine *Shūkan Bunshun* reported their real names, claiming that "human rights aren't needed for brutes".

In July 1990, a lower court sentenced him to seventeen years in prison. He, Minato and Watanabe appealed their sentences. With that the higher court gave more severe sentences to them and Miyano was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the most severe punishment after life imprisonment.

## Aftermath

His parents sold the house where they lived to pay 50 million yen in compensation to the victim's family.

After his release in 2009, he adopted a kid, changed his name to Hiroshi Yokoyama and married but later divorced due to violent behavior. In 2013 he got arrested for a transfer fraud but was released due to lack of evidence because he remained silent.
Reports claim that Hiroshi has ties to the criminal underworld, where the majority of his income was carried out alongside various pyramid schemes. Since then, Miyano has been living a luxurious life. He goes to a kickboxing gym and often takes his juniors to barbecues and cabaret clubs. He drives BMW and luxury sports vehicles. He wears luxury watches and high-end clothing.