I'm afraid to ask that I desire context to your statement.
Junko Furuta was a high school girl who was kidnapped in November 1988, then raped and tortured over the course of 40 days, before being beaten/burned to death and her body disposed of in a drum filled with concrete. Her case is infamous, not just for its brutality, but because the men who committed all of it were teenage high-school dropouts.
Because the Approver thought the art quality was good enough. The image is undoubtedly in bad taste if you know the context, but that's irrelevant to whether or not a post gets approved. And most Approvers probably wouldn't recognize the reference anyway.
Junko was a minor when she was murded and is what this is depicting. Real life minors are prohibited on Danbooru
A rather silly reason to flag this. A drawing of a real person isn't the same thing as a photo or video of a real person. The drawing isn't even depicting anything explicit either, just questionable subject matter because of who is depicted.
The image is undoubtedly in bad taste if you know the context, but that's irrelevant to whether or not a post gets approved. And most Approvers probably wouldn't recognize the reference anyway.
Late but fuck it, ironic enough, I knew who Furata Junko is and her gruesome case. Though I do share the same sentiment about what happen to her, but like you said, it's entirely irrelevant to Danbooru which I agree with.
To be fair, there are like 4 mangas and a pair of references in horror movies anthologies, the police was that incompent they could've saved her in week 2, but...
1 month late, but one of Junko's murderers, the 16 year old, Shinji Minato, has a Twitter account where he regularly gets death wishes and threats for murdering Junko. He referenced the murder 3 years ago here, asking why were people so angry over something he did as a minor and a boy many years ago. Him being a minor at the time did work out legally for him since he received a really light sentence. Socially, not so much.
1 month late, but one of Junko's murderers, the 16 year old, Shinji Minato, has a Twitter account where he regularly gets death wishes and threats for murdering Junko. He referenced the murder 3 years ago here, asking why were people so angry over something he did as a minor and a boy many years ago. Him being a minor at the time did work out legally for him since he received a really light sentence. Socially, not so much.
Well, he describes it as an "embarrassing/shameful incident from his boyhood" and only seems to care about the fact people won't let it go, so I’m gonna guess not even a little beyond how much it inconveniences him today.
1 month late, but one of Junko's murderers, the 16 year old, Shinji Minato, has a Twitter account where he regularly gets death wishes and threats for murdering Junko. He referenced the murder 3 years ago here, asking why were people so angry over something he did as a minor and a boy many years ago. Him being a minor at the time did work out legally for him since he received a really light sentence. Socially, not so much.
Interestingly enough, Minato claimed he started suffering from insomnia and foot pain after the incident. Coincidentally, Junko also had her feet and ankles burned after a failed escape attempt. Many people latched onto the idea that Junko herself was haunting one of her killers from beyond the grave.
Only consolation in this horrific case is that, as of writing this, two of her killers (Jo Ogura/Kamisaku and Yasushi Watanabe) are dead now.
What Junko went through is something I'd never wish on any other human being other than the ones who did it to her. There are several videos and documentaries explaining the hell she suffered for those 40 days. Fair warning: it's not for the faint of heart.
1 month late, but one of Junko's murderers, the 16 year old, Shinji Minato, has a Twitter account where he regularly gets death wishes and threats for murdering Junko. He referenced the murder 3 years ago here, asking why were people so angry over something he did as a minor and a boy many years ago. Him being a minor at the time did work out legally for him since he received a really light sentence. Socially, not so much.
Ipsi said:
Does he express regret?
blindVigil said:
Well, he describes it as an "embarrassing/shameful incident from his boyhood" and only seems to care about the fact people won't let it go, so I’m gonna guess not even a little beyond how much it inconveniences him today.
Not to mention he's the only one out of the bag of four shits who attempted to murder another person after release. And for that he got slapped on the wrist with a light one year-and-a-half sentence that wasn't even carried out but suspended.
The Junko Furuta case is one of the main reasons why I'm against the whole "children are innocent, naive, and clueless" idea. Sure, they may not be fully cognitively developed and are therefore, more suspected to manipulation and grooming by an older person. It's no doubt that a 30 year old would have more knowledge and experience than a minor, but they're still capable of knowing basic concepts, what is right and wrong since a person develops conscience at around 3-5. It's certain her killers knew what they were doing was wrong but they didn't care and found it funny. It's also worth mentioning 3 out of 4 of her killers were younger than her since Junko was 2 weeks away from turning 18 when she passed. Youth doesn't equate to innocence.
When cases like this happens, my whole interpretation is that some children are lost cases from the beggining and no amount of therapy, love or discipline would avoid the pet killing and people killing. Compared to Japan in the USA they document these cases more, and some families tried every trick to avoid the path of murder and failed.
What really gets me is that there were four of them. So statistically it almost can't possibly be the case that each one of these were some kind of exceptional sociopath, like a young Japanese [insert your choice of famous US serial killer]. The odds are just too low that four exceptionally immoral boys would just happen to grow up as friends. So they almost certainly were not all exceptional. I think two or three of them were just the kind of normal people that make the Milgram and Stanford prison experiments so notorious for their results. Shinji Minato strikes me as one of those unexceptional people who just lack moral character, and who can easily enough be lead (by a friend or authority figure) to do shit like this.
What really gets me is that there were four of them.
The 4 of them also invited other people, mainly men to see and possibly rape Junko, but they also invited some women whom a woman would draw on Junko's face. At least 100 people knew that Junko was kidnapped but they were too scared to call the police or knew the 18 year old, Hiroshi and his gang. The 4 invited two 16 year old boys, Koichi Ihara, and Tetsuo Nakamura to rape Junko whom were accomplices so it's not just them. (Although, another source I've read stated Ihara was 15 and Nakamura was 17.)
Oh yeah, people also managed to find Shinji Minato's Youtube account. He pinned a comment about what he had done to Junko and replied to it, although it's nonsensical.
What Junko went through is something I'd never wish on any other human being other than the ones who did it to her. There are several videos and documentaries explaining the hell she suffered for those 40 days. Fair warning: it's not for the faint of heart.
40 minutes of this is already hell. And she suffered this for 40 days. From the bottom of my heart: where is God?
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