Jō Ogura

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## Jō Ogura

### Goals

Avoid punishment for his crimes against Junko Furuta. (failed)

### Crimes

Murder
Serial torture
Serial rape
Kidnapping
Assault

### Type of Villain

Murderer, Torturer and Rapist

**Jō Ogura** [*Japanese*: 小倉 譲; May 11, 1971 (now known as **Jō Kamisaku**)] is one of the four boys who is responsible for murder of Junko Furuta after torturing and raping her for 40 days along with Hiroshi Miyano, Nobuharu Minato and Yasushi Watanabe. He was 17 at the time of the murder. He is the one who tortured Furuta the most.

## Biography

His father was a transportation worker and his mother was working in a hotel. When he was in the third grade of primary school, his parents divorced and he lived with his sister and mother. When he was in the fourth grade, Ogura was sent back to live with his father, but two months later he was sent back to his mother's house. After dropping out of school during his first year of high school, he joined to Miyano, whom he knew from the middle school.

## 40 Days in Hell

On November 25, 1988, Miyano kidnapped Junko Furuta to a hotel, threated her, raped her and bragged about what he did to his friends. Ogura asked Miyano to keep Furuta in captivity in order to gang rape her and 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.

On January 4, 1989, after 40 days of rape and torture the boys beat Junko with a barbell bar, due to losing in a mahjong game, tortured Junko for 2 hours, then burned her and Furuta died as a result of loss of body fluid. The killers threw her body to a concrete drum, poured 55 gallons of cement on it and threw the drum 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. Miyano 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.

## Aftermath

After spending eight years in juvenile detention he was released in August 1999. He was adopted by a woman who worked on his probation and changed his last name. He learned computer skills while in prison and worked in IT-related jobs after his release, but his criminal record was known so he became a member of a gangster.

He was arrested in July 2004 for assaulting an acquaintance because he believed that he was seducing his girlfriend and allegedly bragged about that he committed murder before and knows how to get away with it. He was sentenced to seven years in prison for assault. He was released for the second time in 2009.

His father was dissapointed to him and said he would give his entire life savings to Furuta's family but Ogura depleted his father's savings, buying luxury goods.

His mother allegedly vandalized Furuta's grave for "ruining" his son's life.

## Reference

https://web.archive.org/web/20120710034954/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20040729a3.html