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Wakasu

Coordinates: 35°37′N 139°50′E / 35.617°N 139.833°E / 35.617; 139.833
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Wakasu seaside Park

Wakasu (若洲) also Wakasu Island, is an island located in Koto, Tokyo. It is located south of Shin-Kiba and is connected to a new unnamed island to the south by the Tokyo Gate Bridge.

The island is often associated with the 1989 murder of Junko Furuta, a high school student whose body was located there in a metal drum and completely encased in concrete. The perpetrators were six teenage boys.

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Wakasu, like many other areas of Tokyo, is reclaimed land. Save for the camping ground, Wakasu was constructed on a base of incinerator bottom ash remains from garbage, a form of land reclamation common in Japan.

Roughly half of the island is an industrial zone, while the other half contains the Wakasu Seaside Park,[1][2] Wakasu Golf Course,[3] and a popular camping ground.[4] There is also a large wind turbine located nearby the golf course. The 18-hole golf course and the campground attract many people from all over Tokyo.

Wakasu was planned to be the venue for sailing events at the 2020 Summer Olympics,[5] but the yachting instead took place in Enoshima, Kanagawa Prefecture.[6]

Wakasu is the location near where the body of Junko Furuta, the victim of the "1989 concrete-encased high school girl murder case", was discovered after her murder.[7][better source needed]

Schools

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Koto Ward Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools.

Minamisuna Elementary School (南砂小学校) is the zoned public elementary school for Wakasu.[8]

Minamisuna Junior High School (南砂中学校) is the zoned public junior high school for Wakasu.[9]

References

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  1. ^ Tokyo Port Terminal Corporation - Wakasu Seaside Park Retrieved September 17, 2015
  2. ^ Tokyo Port Terminal Corporation - Yacht Training Site Retrieved September 17, 2015
  3. ^ Wakasu Golf Links - Tokyo Port Terminal Corporation Retrieved September 17, 2015
  4. ^ Koto Ward Wakasu Public Park - Tokyo Port Terminal Corporation Retrieved September 17, 2015
  5. ^ "Venue Plan". Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  6. ^ Games Plan - TOKYO 2020 Retrieved September 17, 2015
  7. ^ JKコンクリート詰め41日間もまわされ続けた畜生事ｲ牛の全て。犯人達の現在がヤバすぎ・・・ ※実写化 動画あり※ [All about the inhuman act of a high school girl being stuffed into concrete and passed around for 41 days. The perpetrators' current situation is so bad... *Featuring live-action video adaptation*]. Samsara Bulletin (in Japanese). 19 October 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  8. ^ "江東区立 小学校・義務教育学校前期課程 通学区域一覧" [Koto City Elementary School/Compulsory Education School First Half Course School District List] (PDF) (in Japanese). Koto Ward. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  9. ^ "江東区立 中学校・義務教育学校後期課程 通学区域一覧" [Koto City Elementary School/Compulsory Education School First Half Course School District List] (PDF) (in Japanese). Koto Ward. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
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