Junko Furuta & Taion Lyrics

On November 25, 1988, four boys, including Jō Kamisaku, then 17 (Kamisaku was a new family name he took after being released from prison), abducted and held Furuta, a third-year high school (12th grade) student from Misato, Saitama Prefecture, for 44 days. They kept her captive in the house owned by the parents of Kamisaku, located in the Ayase district of Adachi, Tokyo.

To forestall a manhunt, one of them forced Furuta into calling her own parents and telling them that she had run away from home, but was with "a friend" and was not in danger. He also browbeat her into posing as the girlfriend of one of the boys when his (Kamisaku's) parents were around, but when he was sure they would not call the police, he dropped the pretext. Furuta tried to escape several times, begging the parents to help her, but they did nothing, apparently out of fear that Yokoyama would hurt them. Yokoyama was at the time a low-level yakuza leader and had bragged that he could use his connections to kill anyone who interfered. 

According to their statements at their trial, the four of them raped her, beat her with metal rods and golf clubs, introduced foreign objects including a light bulb into her vagina, made her eat cockroaches and drink her own urine, inserted fireworks into her anus and set them off, forced Furuta to masturbate, cut her nipple with pliers, dropped dumbbells onto her stomach, and burned her with cigarettes and lighters. One of the burnings was punishment for attempting to call the police. At one point her injuries were so severe that according to one of the boys it took more than an hour for her to crawl downstairs to use the bathroom. They also related that "possibly a hundred different people" knew that Furuta had been imprisoned there, but it is not clear if this means they visited the house at different times while she was imprisoned there, or themselves either raped or abused her. When the boys refused to let her leave, she begged them on several occasions to "kill (her) and get it over with".

On January 4, 1989, using a loss at mah-jong as a pretext, the four beat her with an iron barbell, poured lighter fluid on her legs, arms, face and stomach, and set her on fire. She died later that day of shock. The four boys claimed that they were not aware of how badly injured she was, and that they believed she had been malingering.

On January 5, the killers hid her corpse in a 55-gallon drum filled with cement; the perpetrators disposed the drum in a tract of reclaimed land in Kōtō, Tokyo.

The boys were arrested and tried as adults; but, because of Japanese handling of crimes committed by juveniles, their identities were concealed by the court. However, a weekly magazine Shūkan Bunshun reported their real names, claiming that "human rights aren't needed for brutes." Furuta's real name and details about her personal life were reported exhaustively in the media. Kamisaku was judged as a sub leader, at least according to the official trial.

The four boys pled guilty to a reduced charge of "committing bodily injury that resulted in death", rather than murder. Boy A's parents sold their house for approximately 50 million yen and paid this as compensation to Furuta's family.

For his participation in the crime, Kamisaku served eight years in a juvenile prison before he was released, in August 1999. In July 2004, he was arrested for assaulting an acquaintance, whom he believed to be luring a girlfriend away from him, and allegedly bragged about his earlier infamy. Kamisaku was sentenced to seven years in prison for the beating.

Junko's parents were dismayed by the sentences received by their daughter's killers, and enjoined a civil suit against the parents of the boy in whose home the crimes were committed. When some of the convictions were overturned on the basis of problematic physical evidence (the semen and pubic hair recovered from the body did not match those of the boys who were arrested), the lawyer handling the civil suit decided there was no case to be made and refused to represent them further.

In July 1990 a lower court sentenced the leader to seventeen years in prison. The court sentenced one accomplice to a four to six year term, one accomplice to a three to four year term, and another accomplice to an indefinite five to ten year term. The leader and the first two of the three appealed their rulings. The higher court gave more severe sentences to the three appealing parties. The presiding judge, Ryūji Yanase, said that the court did so because of the nature of the crime, the effect on the victim's family, and the effects of the crime on society. The leader received a twenty year sentence, the second highest possible sentence after life imprisonment. Of the two appealing accomplices, the one that originally got four to six years received a five to nine year term. The other accomplice had his sentence upgraded to a five to seven year term.

In 2006, the Japanese Visual Kei/rock band the GazettE released a song on their album NIL called "Taion" (Body Temperature); the song is a tribute to the girl.

And here is the lyrics:

ROMAJI

A wintry sky and the broken streetlight cold wind.
Unknown shadow the footprint of desertion.
Freedom was taken.

An understanding is impossible.

If it wakes up a gloomy ceiling.
A laughing voice sinks in the eardrum it is soiled.
And violence rapes me.

An understanding is impossible.
Why was I chosen? Someone should answer…

Douka hidoi yumedato kotaetehoshii
Doredake sakebi modae kurusimebaii
Douka hidoi yumedato oshietehoshii
Chigiresouna koede nanndomo sakennda

There is no hand of preparing of the disordered hair.
A laughing voice sinks in the eardrum a faint temperature is mixed in the midwinter.

An understanding is impossible.

Koewo koroshite karesouna jibunni iikikaseteita
Ikirukotowo miushinawanuyou
Koewo koroshite hurueta yoruwa itamini oboreteiku
Togiresouna ikiwo yurushite…

Douka hidoi yumedato kotaetehoshii
Doredake sakebi modae kurusimebaii
Douka hidoi yumedato oshietehoshii
Saigoni mouichidodake warattemitai

ENGLISH

A wintry sky and the broken streetlight cold wind.
Unknown shadow the footprint of desertion.
Freedom was taken.

An understanding is impossible.

If it wakes up a gloomy ceiling.
A laughing voice sinks in the eardrum it is soiled.
And violence rapes me.

An understanding is impossible.
Why was I chosen? Someone should answer…

Please answer me it is a horrible dream.
How much should I shout, writhe and suffer?
Please tell me it is a horrible dream.
I shouted many times with losing voice

There is no hand of preparing of the disordered hair.
A laughing voice sinks in the eardrum a faint temperature is mixed in the midwinter.

An understanding is impossible.

I persuaded myself, who had a dying voice and began writhing.
Not to lose for living.
I was drowned in the night when I feared and had a dying voice.
Please forgive my dying breath.

Please answer me it is a horrible dream.
How much should I shout, writhe and suffer?
Please tell me it is a horrible dream.
I want to smile again at last.

Last words from me:

Please be careful whenever you're going home with or without your friends. Cause the world is starting to turn into a worst nightmare for all of us. And we have to appreciate the life that God has given to us and use it wisely.

R.I.P. Junko-san... I wish you a better life there...

the GazettE - Burial Applicant Lyrics

ROMAJI

Hello, my dear, kill me, gently.
A burned body doesn't leave you.
Sukuenai to nageku nara, shi sae mita darou?
Sono kokyuu no zaratsuki wa, gien totorenai ka?

Furushikiru kishimu ne ni
Furue ga yamanu
Nou de riakishi tsuzukeru
Itami ni zetsuen wo

Die for me, for me... you can't save it.
It's wrong? kotaete misete
Hora yura yura yura to
Sono me yurashite
Nagasu namida ni
Uso wa nai to

My hand... eyes... mind... and breath..
Saigo ni nokoru no wa
Yake tadarete kusari
Hateta kiroku to
Ko mo sukuenu sangai

Torimidasu hishatai no kage
Zouo to kyoufu wa sakebi atte
Hagare ochita aijou ni
Naze kono karada made kuchihateru

Hateru... 8 times
Akaku warau yami no naka de
I wo haku tsuku tabi ni koboreta
Sukui you no nai kotoba wa
Sono zouo to yoku niteiru

Furishikiru kishimu ne ni
Furue ga yamanu
Nou de rikaichi tsuzukeru
Itami ni zetsuen wo

Hello, my dear, kill me, gently.
A burned body doesn't leave you.
Ubugoe to himei shiru mimi ni
Negai wo todoke tukaki soko e
Douka douka sono umaru me ni
Utsurikomanu you ni shizumete

Fukaku... 4 times

Nidoto kono mi ni furenu you
Soshite warau sono
Ibitsuna omoide mo

Forget me, for me... , you can't save it.
It's wrong? kotaete misete
Hora yura yura yura to
Sono me yurashite
Nagasu namida ga
Subete uso to

My hand... eyes... mind... and breath..
Saigo no okizari wa
Yake tadarete kusari
Hateta kiroku to
Ko mo aisenu yurikago

ENGLISH

Hello, my dear, kill me, gently.
A burned body doesn't leave you.
If you wail that you cannot save me,
Have you at least seen death?
Can I take your ragged breathing, as a fake act?

Under the creaks that rain upon me
The trembling won't stop
I will break my ties with the pain that
I can only understand with my mind

Die for me, for me... you can't save it.
It's wrong? Answer me
See, let your eyes
Sway and waver
Because
No lies in spilled tears

My hand... eyes... mind... and breath..
What is left in the end
Are the rotten memories
That have been burned
And the remains

The shadow of the subject
Hate and terror scream together,
Seeing the peeling love
Why must this body rot as well?

Die... 8 times

In the darkness that laughs in red,
The foolish words that were spilled.
Every time a breath was released
Is very alike to that "hate"

Under the creaks that rain upon me
The trembling won't stop
I will break my ties with the pain that
I can only understand with my mind

Hello, my dear, kill me, gently.
A burned body doesn't leave you.
Let me wishes reach the ear that
Knows a newborn baby's voice and
Somehow, please make them sink
So far into those wet eyes,

Deep... 4 times

So that they never touch me again
And those warped memories
That laugh

Forget me... For me... you can't save it.
It's wrong? Answer me
See, let your eyes
Sway and waver
Because there is nothing
But lies and spilled tears

My hand... eyes... mind... and breath..
What is left behind in the end
Are the rotten memories
That have been burned
That can't even love a child

A little leak on VORTEX

For you GazettE fans such as myself, here is a little leak on their new single, VORTEX's lyrics:
"I don't wanna become a fucking garbage like you".

I so love that part LOL

"GAZEROCK IS NOT DEAD!!"

Meet the boy who visited heaven

After a burst appendix nearly cost 4-year-old Colton Burpo his life in 2003, his parents were thankful just to have him alive and well. But when he opened up about his brush with death a few months later, they were shocked when he described a very vivid trip to heaven, and spoke of matters about which he had no apparent way of knowing.

During an automobile trip, when Sonja Burpo asked him about his memories of being in the hospital, little Colton replied: “Yes, Mommy, I remember — that’s where the angels sang to me.” A sweet answer, to be sure — but then Colton made his parents’ jaws drop when he told them about sitting in Jesus’ lap, watching his parents while he lay seemingly near death, and meeting his great-grandfather.

But most poignantly, Colton described meeting a sibling in heaven — even though he had no way of knowing that his mother had miscarried two years before he was born, since his parents had never told him.

Todd Burpo began telling of his son’s heaven-sent visions from the pulpit of the Crossroads Wesleyan Church in Imperial, Neb., where he serves as pastor. Word of mouth spread, and the family landed a book deal. The book — “Heaven Is for Real,” written by Todd with co-writer Lynn Vincent — has become a best-seller, with some 1.5 million copies in print since its release in November.

Appearing live on TODAY Monday with Sonja and Colton, who’s now 11, Todd told Matt Lauer he understands that naysayers may believe Colton’s story is a little too heavenly to be true — initially, so did he and Sonja. “At first we were surprised; we never anticipated to talk to our son about these things,” Todd told Matt Lauer.

“We didn’t share at first, and then once we started sharing, people were amazed,” Sonja Burpo added. “They were encouraged by what we were sharing with them.”

Colton was stricken with appendicitis shortly before his fourth birthday. Family guilt was heavy — for five days he lay getting sicker and sicker with what the family believed was stomach flu, which had previously hit Colton’s older sister Cassie.

Little Colton nearly didn’t make it: He lay in a hospital bed for 17 days. When he finally rallied, the family rejoiced — but they were floored when, months later, the boy began matter-of-factly describing what he had experienced when he was in between life and death: seeing Jesus dressed in royal purple, meeting John the Baptist, having angels sing to him to ease his anxiety.

The Burpos believed these were things Colton could have gleaned from his Bible studies. But he also told his mother he saw her talking on the phone in another room while he was having surgery, and saw his father praying in a small room, all while he was seated in Jesus’ lap.

“What caught my attention was he could tell me where I was while he was in surgery,” Todd told Lauer. “The surgeon couldn’t tell me that, the nurses couldn’t, my wife couldn’t tell me where I was praying. But he could tell me.”

Colton also spoke of meeting a long-departed relative in heaven, telling NBC News: “I was just sitting by the Holy Spirit and then this guy comes up to me and says, ‘Are you Todd’s son?’ I say yes, and he says, ‘Well, I’m his grandfather.’ ”

Colton said that everyone in heaven has wings. On Monday, he described his great-grandfather “Pops” as being “very big, huge wings, curly hair, a big smile, and he was very nice.”

But the real shocker came when Colton told his mother, “Mommy, I have two sisters.” Sonja told her son that he had to be referring to his oldest sister, Cassie, and his cousin Traci, but he responded: “No — I have two sisters. You had a baby die in your tummy, didn’t you?”

Sonja told Lauer the family had never uttered a word about the miscarriage to Colton — and what’s more, they never even learned the sex of their miscarried child. “It was a private hurt that we didn’t even share with our friends,” Sonja said, adding Colton’s revelation was at first “shocking, but then a relief that she’s OK, which we didn’t know she was a she.”

In a subsequent TODAY segment Monday, Sonja filled in Colton’s description of his meeting with his sister: “He told us what she looked like, and she wouldn’t stop hugging him. And she doesn’t have a name.”

“When he told us about his sister in heaven, that we hadn’t told him about, [it was] another one of those ‘holy cow’ moments — OK, he can’t make this stuff up, he can’t invent this; no memory was planted,” Todd told Lauer. “But the peace that came over us, and the healing, like, ‘Wow, I have a daughter in heaven waiting for me’ — I think a lot of people need that type of hope and healing, too. And I think that’s what a lot of people are finding when they hear Colton’s testimony, to know what they have to look forward to.”

When Lauer asked Colton what heaven looked like, the 11-year-old replied, “Well, there’s a lot of color. There are a lot of people and a lot of angels.”

In his second segment later on Monday, Colton gave Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb some additional details — such as the fact that there are no old people in heaven. “Nobody wears glasses, [and] you’re in like your 20s, 30s.”

Todd Burpo told The New York Times that the family is donating much of the money they make from the book sales. As for Colton, he’s mostly happy his story is helping people.

“People are getting blessed, and they’re going to have healing from their hurts,” the boy told the New York Times. “I’m happy for that.”

SOURCE: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42191453/ns/today-today_people/?gt1=43001

Say YES to GANBARU!!

My father received this e-mail from his high school friend 4 days ago. His friend is in Japan right now and safe. She wrote this e-mail and I was touched. That's why I want to spread it to the world. This is a very important lesson for all of us so I hope that you guys will read it.

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Honestly, the 1 word that made me sick when I arrived in Japan 2 years ago is: GANBARU (struggle until the death). Sick as hell, I swear, because every time there's a leadership with the professor, the closing is always: Motto ganbattekudasai! Taihen dakedo, isshoni ganbarimashoo! Motto motto kenkyuu shitekudasai! (Let's fight together! I know this is hard but let's fight together! Let's make more and more researches!)


Until I really wanted to say: Don't you have any other words than GANBARU? Others may, but please not GANBARU.


GANBARU is not just fight that if you're lazy or meet many obstacle, then okay let's quit. According to the Japanese dictionary, GANBARU is: "Doko made mo nintai shite doryoku suru (Survive until the last and keep trying).


GANBARU itself is consist with 2 kanji characters that are "hard" and "tighten". So the image that come out from these 2 characters is: "Though we face hard problems, we must be hard and keep on tightening our self, so that we will win the problems". (Don't be lazy and consider a problem is natural in life. Life is hard so don't pray for simplicity. Life problems can only be done with GANBARU).


Honestly, 2 years in Japan, I don't understand why the Japanese make GANBARU their philosophy.


Even a 3 years old kid is is be taught GANBARU in her school. For example; in the winter, they have to wear thin shirts so they won't be spoiled by the cold weather. In the schools are not allowed to use socks because if your sole touch the floor directly, it's good for your health. When you're ill until your nose is running or have a fever until 37 degrees, the schools still want you to go to school so that you can face your own illness.


That's why whenever I take a stroll by bicycle with my daughter, she always says: Mama ganbatte! Mama faitooo!! 


The point is, don't be spoiled just because of problems. GANBARU until the death is a must!


I started to understand why GANBARU is so important in our life when the 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the eastern Japan. I know that disasters in Indonesia like the tsunami in Aceh, Nias, the earthquake in Padang, and the Merapi volcanic eruption is not an easy thing to handle. But the tsunami and earthquake in Japan are much more nasty! They even said that this is the biggest and nastiest tsunami and earthquake in the world.


So it's natural if the government and the Japanese were panic. It's natural if they cried, confused and didn't know what to do.


And yes it is forgiven if the televisions broadcast a little BGM with a sad song and a clip that showed the tears of the Japanese children and victims.


And how is that not possible? The tsunami and earthquake destroyed everything that they had. So it's only natural if they lost their hope.


But what happened after the tragedies?
From day 1, I've been waiting for the clips and songs that I told you above. I also looked for a place to charity. Those 3 things, were not shown on TV. So what's in the TV?


This is what I saw on TV:

1. The government's warning so the citizen will always stay on guard.
2. The government's appeal so the citizen will help each other on facing the tragedies (including the request for the citizen to save the electricity so the Tokyo and Tohoku citizen won't get a long lights off).
3. The government's apology because they have to rotate the power outages.
4. Tips to face the disasters.
5. The disaster call centre's number for 24 hours.
6. The SAR team from every prefect to the districts that was hit.
7. The government and citizen's photos when they help each other (They're very ready! The Japanese life is very precious).
8. The government giving spirit calmly and not emotional: "Let's face the tragedies together with all our heart).
9. The citizen's photos that are encouraging each other *There's a man that is still searching for his lost wife. He's very confused but still keep his emotion and calmly. He was encouraged by an old lady: Ganbatte sagasoo! Kitto mitsuru kara! Akiramenai de! (Let's search your wife! We will found her! Don't give up!).

As an Indonesian that never saw this kind of handling by GANBARU, I'm really ashamed and in the same time, amazed and total respect to the citizen and government of Japan.


This is a very amazing country. The natural resources are limited yet they are very hard. But they can move forward and have a great mental because of GANBARU.


You can say that the Japanese have nothing except GANBARU. And GANBARU is more than enough to face any other life problems.


It is true that we have to pray and resigned to God. 


I guarantee you 100%, as long as our mental is still the same, until doomsday, our nation won't advance like Japan. 


Lastly, I will say: 
Indonesia,
Jin no watashi ni ganbaru no seishin to imi wo oshietekudasai, kokoro kara kansha itashimasu. Nihonjin no minasan no yoo ni, ganbaru seishin wo mi ni tsukeraremasuu yoo ni, hibi ganbatteikitai to omoimasu.
(I thank from the bottom of my heart to teach me the GANBARU mental for me, an Indonesian. I will fight everyday, so the GANBARU mental can overcome me just like all of you, Japanese).
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A very wise and amazing story right? I really love how she described the Japanese that stay calm while overcoming this kind of tragedy... I hope someday our nation can progress like that! And remember, keep in mind that GANBARU is a must for us ^^


GANBATTE ALWAYS!!