Nagasaki mayor's murder blamed on Yakuza | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

re: "The mayor of Nagasaki was shot dead yesterday in an attack which police said was due to an organised crime chief apparently enraged that his car was damaged at a public works construction site. /The shooting was rare in a country where handguns are banned. /Mayor Iccho Ito, 61, was shot twice in the back at point-blank range outside a train station yesterday evening. He died of his wounds after emergency surgery. /Tetsuya Shiroo, a senior member of Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest organised crime syndicate, was wrestled to the ground by officers after the attack and arrested for attempted murder, police said. He later admitted shooting the mayor with a handgun with the intent to kill, Nagasaki chief investigator Kazuki Umebayashi said at a news conference..."...