Japanese Mayor Dies

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Joining recent deaths of the NSA hostage and the Virgina Tech massacre is one of Japan's mayors. This is one bloody April, or bloody week of April, maybe Satanic ritual week:

NAGASAKI, Japan, April 20 — The shooting death this week of this city’s popular mayor has left people puzzling over the shooter’s motive and has set off a national outcry about a less savory aspect of Japanese society: its teeming criminal underworld.

The brazenness of the slaying, in front of crowds of commuters at the city’s main train station, shocked this nation, which takes pride in its normally safe streets. It has brought growing calls in national newspapers and among ordinary citizens for Japan’s central government to take tougher steps to crack down on criminal groups.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/world/...japan.html