On November 25, 1988, a Japanese high school student named Junko Furuta was abducted by four teenage boys.

 On November 25, 1988, a Japanese high school student named Junko Furuta was abducted by four teenage boys. She was then subjected to 44 days of almost unimaginable torture. Not only was Furuta beaten and raped by her four kidnappers, but she was also brutalized by dozens of other men and boys who were invited to the home where she was being held prisoner. Her captors then murdered her in a vicious rage after she beat them in a game of mahjong. 

While Furuta's body was found shortly after her death, and the boys were soon arrested, her captors received shockingly light sentences for their brutal crimes. All four of them were eventually freed from prison — after which three of them went on to re-offend. It's believed that they got off easy due to their alleged connections to the Yakuza, a powerful organized crime syndicate in Japan. And to this day, many in the country feel that true justice has not been served.