Heinous attacker brags about schoolboy killing days(Mainichi, July 28, 2004)
The perpetrator of one of the most heinous crimes in Japanese history boasted of his brutal killing while taking a rival captive, the Tokyo District Court heard Wednesday.
Jo Kamisaku, the defendant who as a schoolboy was involved in the savage gang rape and killing of a schoolgirl later buried in a concrete-encased oil drum, entered a guilty plea as his trial for illegal confinement resulting in injury opened.
...Prosecutors said Kamisaku cornered a man in Tokyo's Adachi-ku early on May 19, accused him of "stealing" his girlfriend and then forced him into the trunk of his car.... Kamisaku had boasted about the 1988 killing, telling his prisoner that he had "killed before" and spent a decade behind bars, where he "learned how to manipulate cops and prosecutors."
[In 1991, Kamisaku was ordered to serve a prison sentence of an undetermined length].... kept the girl prisoner for 41 days, repeatedly raping and beating her in an upstairs room of the boy's home while his parents remained oblivious in other parts of the house.... stuffed her body into an oil drum and filled it with concrete before dumping it.
... He was released in 1999 and was working part-time at a computer company at the time of his arrest.