The Japan Times http://search.japantimes.co.jp/print/nn20070418a1.html
In Nagasaki, the mayor was killed by a gangster, so this is a too dangerous for democracy. When the mayor of Nagasaki, Itcho Ito, was campaigning for an election of forth term, a gangster Tetsuya Shiroo shot him twice, then Ito was dead in April 18. In fact there were alike affairs happened in Nagasaki in 1990 when Hitoshi Motoshima had been shot and wounded by a rightwing, because he had criticized Emperor Hirohito. What is more, recently 2006, the house of Koichi Kato was fired by a rightwing, for he had condemned a pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine of Jyunichirou Koizumi. Then Shiroo said the reason why he killed Ito is that he had a trouble which is between him and the Municipal Government. His reason was not a political reason, like affairs of Motoshima or Kato, but a private reason.
