Iccho Ito

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Japan Today: "Nagasaki Mayor Ito Dies After Being Shot by Gangster"
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MSNBC.com: "60 years later, Nagasaki recalls A-bomb" (2005)
WagingPeace.org: Nagasaki Peace Declaration by Mayor Iccho Itoh, August 9, 2005
Democracy Now!: Nagasaki at 60: The Bombers and the Bombed
The Japan Times: "Slain mayor laid to rest; son-in-law runs"

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TIME: "Behind the Nagasaki Mayor's Shooting"
Stuff.co.nz: "Gangland Shooting Reminds Japan of Underworld Threat"
Reuters AlertNet: "Fatal Shooting Reminds Japan: It Can Happen Here"
Chicago Tribune: "Crime Boss Held in Japan Mayor's Death"
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BBC News Player: "Japan PM Decries Mayor Death"
YouTube: Japanese Yakuza Mobster Kills Nagasaki City Mayor

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Counterpunch.org: David Krieger: Peace Declarations from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Assassination

On April 17, 2007, Iccho Itoh was shot twice in the back after a gangster, tied with the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate, was enraged that the city would not compensate him after his car was damaged at a public works site. Itoh was shot outside of a train station in Nagasaki. He was rushed to the Nagasaki University Hospital, but died in surgery. Tetsuya Shiroo, the shooter, was arrested at the scene of the crime. The shooting was a rare homicide due to the national ban on handguns. Further, Itoh was only one of five politicians to have been attacked since World War II.

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