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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Foxy Brown on April 18, 2007, 02:19:22 PM
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The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki was shot to death 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 said.
The shooting was rare in a country where handguns are strictly banned and only five 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. (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4725210.html)
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I thought he survived this attack.
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Ugh. What's with all the death lately?
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Because the only deaths that matter are the ones that get reported in the news, yes?
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hmmm.... being illegal of having handgun, and still ... people have it??
poor that mayor...... did he have handgun too and fightback??
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did he have handgun too and fightback??
Did you even read the story?
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poor that mayor........
yakuza is too dangerous in japan?????
i really want to know about that...... ???
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^ Only if you piss them off I guess.
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...things like the yakuza make me feel all paranoid..
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I don't think that the yakuza are to blame in this case (unless there's more behind all this than we know about) - The guy just held a grudge against the city for something that had happend to his car.
Shiroo has told the police, "I could not stand the response by the city and was infuriated." He referred to a 2003 incident in which his car was allegedly damaged by a cave-in at a construction site of the project ordered by the city.
Shiroo is also known to have sent postal mail to broadcaster TV Asahi Corp that said "I cannot forgive Mayor Itcho Ito."
Shiroo had visited the city office more than 30 times in protest after the office tried to arbitrate a dispute over the 2003 incident.
Although the only damage the vehicle sustained was to its fender, Shiroo initially demanded 600,000 yen and ended up claiming more than 2 million yen, at which point the city broke off negotiations with him in January 2005 after consulting with police.
But this trouble was reported up to the level of a deputy mayor, not to the mayor, the sources said.
That he's a yakuza is rather coincidental IMO...
EDIT:
I've found a more complete version of the story. Looks like my first guess was wrong.
Maybe he did do it for his group.... I give up....
NAGASAKI - The gangster held in connection with the recent shooting to death of Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito had apparently never met the mayor, sources familiar with the investigation said Thursday.
Nagasaki police believe that the suspect, Tetsuya Shiroo, 59, has harbored a one-sided grudge against the mayor as he made repeated complaints over the city.
Shiroo has told the police, "I could not stand the response by the city and was infuriated." He referred to a 2003 incident in which his car was allegedly damaged by a cave-in at a construction site of the project ordered by the city.
Shiroo is also known to have sent postal mail to broadcaster TV Asahi Corp that said "I cannot forgive Mayor Itcho Ito."
Shiroo had visited the city office more than 30 times in protest after the office tried to arbitrate a dispute over the 2003 incident.
Although the only damage the vehicle sustained was to its fender, Shiroo initially demanded 600,000 yen and ended up claiming more than 2 million yen, at which point the city broke off negotiations with him in January 2005 after consulting with police.
But this trouble was reported up to the level of a deputy mayor, not to the mayor, the sources said.
Senior city officials and relatives of the mayor say, "There is no chance Shiroo held a personal grudge against the mayor because he had never met him."
Meanwhile, Shiroo was involved in a separate dispute with the city around 2003 over a construction company to which he used to provide a large amount of funding.
Sources said the construction company, which had tried to use the city's lending system for small and midsize companies, was not eligible for a loan after it failed to pass screening by a financial institution.
The lack of funds drove Shiroo into a financial trouble. It also affected the operation of the Suishin-kai gangster group, with which Shiroo is an acting leader, the sources said, adding that he bitterly complained about the city.
Another source said the Suishin-kai, which is affiliated with Japan's biggest organized crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, has been outperformed by its rival in recent years. The gangster group has been financially squeezed by its contribution to higher-level organizations, he said.
Sources close to Shiroo said the declining influence of his gangster group may have driven him into a series of rash, short-sighted acts.
But police have yet to determine the suspect's exact motive and are carrying out the investigation with great caution.
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Yakuza is like the Mafia that isnt scared to show they are a mafia.
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Because the only deaths that matter are the ones that get reported in the news, yes?
lol exactly. Death happens, you just don't know about it.
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Only if you piss them off I guess.
Very true!!
When The Great Hanshin Earthquake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanshin_earthquake) happened, the Yamaguchi Gumi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaguchi-gumi) (same yazuka syndicate as this shooter), really came to the rescue of the people of Kobe, and are quite well respected there because of it.
The yazuka I've met have mostly been friendly and are quite nice, but they won't take shit or "no" for an answer, even if it's true and they are obviously wrong. But some are incredibly pig headed (such as this guy) and believes the world revolves around them.
Best of to just keep your distance, and don't get on their bad side.
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Damn, that's scary. Watching "my boss, my hero" totally gave me the wrong impression of yakuza. And i thought that getting involved with gangs were bad enough...
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Gotta love those Yakuza....... except for the killing and the beatings and all that stuff.