- Jo Kamisaku
Jo Kamisaku (神作 譲 "Kamisaku Jō", born
May 11 ,1971 ) is aJapan ese man who as a youth participated in the rape-murder ofJunko Furuta . After he was released, he took the family name "Kamisaku" when he was adopted by a supporter of his.Kamisaku, who was 17 at the time he committed the murder with three other people, was imprisoned starting in 1991 for an indeterminate length. He was released in 1999.
On
May 19 ,2004 , he attacked Takatoshi Isono ("Isono Takatoshi"), an acquaintance of his, inAdachi, Tokyo , accusing him of stealing his girlfriend. He drove Isono toMisato ,Saitama Prefecture and held him captive for four hours while beating him. According to Isono, during that time, Kamisaku bragged about his involvement in the Junko Furuta murder, and before the confinement he claimed that he could manipulate police and investigators.After Kamisaku released Isono, Kamisaku was arrested. Jo Kamisaku had a part-time job with a computer company when he was arrested for the beating of the man. He was sentenced to a 4-year imprisonment.
ee also
*(Japanese) Japanese Wikipedia entry on the murder case in 1989
*(Japanese) Japanese Wikipedia entry on the incident case in 2004External links
* [http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200407/28/20040728p2a00m0dm009001c.html Mainichi Shimbun article on Kamisaku attacking Isono]
* [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/member.html?nn20040729a3.htm Japan Times article on Kamisaku attacking Isono]
* [http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20050118p2a00m0dm012000c.html Mainichi Shimbun article on Kamisaku's sentencing]
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