'TOKYO — The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki was shot in a brazen attack Tuesday by an organized crime chief apparently enraged that the city refused to compensate him after his car was damaged at a public works construction site, police and media reports said.

The shooting was rare in a country where handguns are strictly banned and only four politicians are known to have been killed since World War II.

Mayor Iccho Ito, 61, was shot twice in the back at point-blank range outside a train station Tuesday evening, Nagasaki police official Rumi Tsujimoto said.'

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4722846.html


This is definitely not in the interests of a better Japan or Asia. After all, just position this branched off-yakuza group politically. This is very crazy for Japan, and somehow somebody felt now is a good time to start things off with a poison dart.



WARNING: No racism.

yup, he died from his injuries soonafter.

UGGH i fu-king hate the uyoku and yakuza