Iccho Itoh

Iccho Itoh (伊藤 一長, 23 August 1945 – 18 April 2007) was a Japanese politician who served as the mayor of Nagasaki from 1995 to 2007.

Itoh was fatally shot by Tetsuya Shiroo, a member of the yakuza, on 17 April 2007 and died the following morning.

Kazunaga Itō was born on 23 August 1945 in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, 8 days after the Surrender of Japan and two weeks after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[10] In August 2002, at a commemoration of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Itoh criticized the United States' nuclear weapons policy in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

[9] Itoh was taken to the Nagasaki University Hospital in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest and underwent four hours of emergency operations, but he died early the next morning due to blood loss.

Shiroo filed an insurance claim for damage to his car when he drove it into a hole dug for public works, but the city refused to compensate him.

Additionally, Shiroo was also reportedly angry that a construction company linked to the Suishin-kai had been denied a contract by the city government.

The Suishin-kai's offices were raided by police for evidence, and the gang announced their intention to voluntarily disband days later.