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Mobster Guns Down Nagasaki Mayor

Officials attribute slaying to grudge against city

By Sam Gale Rosen, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 18, 2007 1:36 PM CDT

(Newser) – The mayor of Nagasaki was murdered yesterday by a gangster affiliated with Japan's largest organized-crime syndicate. The assassin, who shot Iccho Ito twice in the back, reportedly was steamed that the city refused to pay for damages to his car after he drove it into... Read full story »

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