Mayor’s killer sent letters to media
The man who shot and killed the Nagasaki Mayor Ito Itcho had apparently sent letters to TV Asahi that criticized the mayor.
Mainichi News is reporting that the letters sent on April 15 and bearing the Nagasaki Central Post Office postmark, were delivered to TV Asahi on Tuesday. Several cassette tapes were enclosed. The mobster turned killer wrote the following:
“I, Tetsuya Shiroo, hereby write the truth, and take responsibility for what I do. I can’t forgive Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito because I can’t tolerate wrongdoing for the sake of city residents and prefectural residents. There was a breach of promise over the work to dismantle the Unzen Hot Spa Center. (The municipal government) offered to give me 1 million yen as an apology, but I haven’t received the money,”
The above seems to suggest that he was in a dispute with the municipal government over a public works contract. Although if your familiar with politics in Japan and yakusa dealings, I believe there is much more to this story then what has currently been disclosed.
I suspect it will take some time to figure out the truth.
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Here’s the reason he killed the Mayor–his car was scratched while being parked next to a public works project. No kidding.
“Some media said Shiroo had been upset at the city’s handling of a traffic accident four years ago in which his car was damaged as it passed a public works construction site.” –Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUST33398520070418
Yakuza retard.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:07 amMy wife read reports in the Japanese media that Ito had promised to pay money for the damage in an effort to “keep the peace” but never payed up. Either way, I still don’t think that is the complete story on this.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:10 amI’m going to try and find some links to the site she was talking about.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:11 amhello Alex could you please do a small post on white rice bran soap and the benefits it has for skin beauty because it seems very interesting to me and has nothing to do with shooting people or baking giant jellyfish cookies and other such flummery and some peeple on this site might get interested and informed and start using some of it to make themselves happier and cheerful. (and smiling).
thank you rem.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:48 amRemora,
I believe I can accommodate this wish! I know the news (and thus posts on this site) have been rather grim recently.
I promise I will have cheerful and good news posts in the next few days..
April 19th, 2007 at 9:40 amthanks alex…by the keep it up,you are doing a stirling job.
rem.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:47 amI serve at the discretion of the audience and of course aim to please.
Wait it out, tomorrow there will be some ‘happy’ news to report.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:54 amIs this Shiroo fellow trying to outdo Cho Seung-Hui by assassinating a public official?
April 19th, 2007 at 1:23 pmSomething which was reported the day after…
…which always sounded much more likely to me to be his motive. He’s getting pressure from above, and then his nice government funding is cut off. Seems a bit more plausible than “they didn’t pay to repair my dinged car”.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:43 pmI completely agree Overoften. The motives the police are claiming make no sense. Even if the man was deranged which he may or not be, something is missing from the story.
I am much more inclined to believe your comments then I am anything “official” that I’ve read so far.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:47 pm