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Japan - Nagasaki mayor shot
NHK News (Tokyo) ^
| April 17, 2007
Posted on 04/17/2007 4:40:04 AM PDT by HAL9000
The mayor of Nagasaki City, Iccho Ito, has been shot by an unidentified gunman. No details are yet known about his condition. He was shot near Japan Railway's Nagasaki station on Tuesday evening.
The attacker has reportedly been caught.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; guncontrol; guns; japan; nagasaki
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posted on
04/17/2007 4:40:05 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
I'm having trouble posting anything right this morning.
The headline should say -
"Japan - Nagasaki mayor shot"
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posted on
04/17/2007 4:41:12 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
(Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
To: HAL9000
I’m sorry to hear this. We will pray for the gentleman this morning.
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posted on
04/17/2007 4:41:28 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("There is no such thing as death for a Christian who believes in the Resurrection." ~ Fr. Ho Lung)
To: HAL9000
Is there a mosque in Nagasaki?
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posted on
04/17/2007 4:42:37 AM PDT
by
Cornpone
(Islam: The world's greatest, preventable and treatable psychosis. ©2006Cornpone)
To: Cornpone
Probably not, he still has his head on...
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posted on
04/17/2007 4:45:39 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: HAL9000; maikeru; Dr. Marten; Eric in the Ozarks; Al Gator; snowsislander; sushiman; ...
Those gun-crazy Japanese with their 2nd Amendment are at it again...
/sarc
日本＊ピング＊ (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)
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posted on
04/17/2007 4:50:54 AM PDT
by
DTogo
(I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
To: HAL9000; Constitutionalist Conservative; Gator113; Zhang Fei; DanielLongo; Tamar1973; Dr. Marten; ..
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posted on
04/17/2007 5:04:56 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: DTogo
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posted on
04/17/2007 5:05:16 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: HAL9000
Was he shot by an Asian? What’s up with them this week?
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posted on
04/17/2007 5:07:33 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
04/17/2007 5:08:45 AM PDT
by
cartan
To: DTogo
Actually you can apply to get a shotgun in Japan.
When I lived in Misawa they had a huge problem with crows so hunting was legal for animal control purposes.
Also the Yakuza somehow gets a free pass.
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posted on
04/17/2007 5:10:21 AM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
To: DungeonMaster
To be fair, around 60% of the global population is Asian.
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posted on
04/17/2007 5:12:59 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: DTogo
Thanks. Turned on the news. Shot two times in front of election campaign office around 8 pm (little over an hour ago). Perp apprehended at crosswalk 10 m away. They just released his name but I didn’t catch it. He is deputy leader of crime unit of Yamaguchi crime syndicate. Condition of mayor said to be “cardiac and respiratory arrest”.
To: HAL9000
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posted on
04/17/2007 5:28:23 AM PDT
by
Tolkien
(There are things more important than Peace. Freedom being one of those.)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
To be fair, around 60% of the global population is Asian. That's more than I would have guessed.
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posted on
04/17/2007 5:32:47 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.)
To: HAL9000
Impossible. The peace-loving, gun-free Japanese?
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posted on
04/17/2007 5:55:46 AM PDT
by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrak of News)
To: HAL9000
Must be due to the American gun culture. (sarcasm)
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posted on
04/17/2007 6:48:34 AM PDT
by
fschmieg
To: Thinkin' Gal
FRom Feb of this year -
“The fatal shooting of a senior gangster in Tokyo has sparked fears of an all-out turf war between two of Japan’s fiercest underworld organisations.
Police have arrested two members of a gang affiliated to the Sumiyoshi-kai, Japan’s second-biggest crime syndicate, on suspicion of firing shots at the office of a rival gang in apparent retaliation for the killing of Ryoichi Sugiura, a senior member of a Sumiyoshi affiliate.
One of the suspects was quoted by police as saying that he and his accomplice had targeted a group linked to the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s most powerful crime syndicate, in apparent retaliation for Sugiura’s death, according to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.”
I wonder if it is more fallout of the ongoing turf war? A shame really, we really enjoy staying in the area.
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posted on
04/17/2007 8:04:13 AM PDT
by
ASOC
(Yeah, well, maybe - but can you *prove* it?)
To: Thinkin' Gal
He is deputy leader of crime unit of Yamaguchi crime syndicate The crime unit of a crime mob. Is political assassination a crime in Japan?
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posted on
04/17/2007 8:08:42 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(3 May '07 3:14 PM)
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