The mayor of Nagasaki city in Japan made popular by the role it played Nuclear weapon development & Global Psychological Warfare suffered serious injuries in the last 24 hours when he was shot twice by Tetsuya Shiroo a 59 year old member of the Suishin Kai branch of the Yamaguchi Gumi.
A very well known and feared Yakuza clan.
as seen in movies like Kill Bill and Kill Bill (2).
Itcho Ito had campaiging for re-election on an anti-yakuza platform; all types of yakuza, suishin kai, yamaguchi gumi, non-yamaguchi gumi. This would have been at root, branch and clan level. The Japanese a usually stoic and reserved people see no immediate threat to their institutions or democracy. The emperor is safe.
The Yakuza normally only chop your finger off or to be more precise each others fingers off.
Ireland has on any one day literally hundreds of our students, diasporia, tourists and commercial travelers in Japan. We're very popular there. They love us. It's the sense of humour. But you wouldn't find many an Irish person in Nagasaki. It's mysterious how we know where to go and where to keep our little snouts out of.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070418a1.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,2157....html
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070418p2a....html
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070418TDY01002.htm
http://www.knx1070.com/pages/360901.php?contentType=4&c...17411
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4they chop their own fingers off. You've seen a movie. You might have played the computer game. It is not unthinkable that you or one of your neighbours has an imitation samurai sword on the mantlepiece. I bet my bottom dollar that in this troubled world - the general readership of indymedia ireland can whistle the theme tune. annoying little melody gets into your brain & just won't go away. I've just reminded you of it. You're remembering it. You've started whistling it. That's it. Kill Bill is in your brain now for till at least tea time.
Isho Ito is the first mayor of Nagasaki to die in violent circumstances since 1945.
& recent campus violence - our language nor pitch may be allowed to change. Many vulnerable and lonely ugly unhappy people with guns or that 5% of gay muslims who don't like the sauna won't realise it's ok to be free.
Propaganda Continues
There are still a rake of t-shirts to be bought at this site together with other nifty counterculture and you know how it goes "masterly propaganda" images and updates for you.
http://www.killbush.net/index.php?art=&lang=en
I hope the Irish Dail will hold a minutes silence for the victims of violence in Nagasaki. Together we will break organised crime.
great t-shirt it won global condemation
Tomorrow's big scary picture. Obviously tomorrow's big scary picture is not the hundreds dead in Iraq - go look at a big news stands where they put them all together. They've shown you the culprit's cold-sore, his blog and his dvd collection.
Will VT day come to replace 911 Nagasaki, Darfur, the Holocaust & Hiroshima as the lesson of Terror in our young minds?
Will the Yamaguchi Gumi Yakuza & non-Yamaguchi Gumi Yakuza be brought to justice?
These & more questions will be answered next week. Roughly the same time & place. Go on you were talking about Iraq & Vietnam. yeah. of course we are. keep on track. our most vulnerable to the center please. we're not scared.
(The fastest growing group in Japanese prisons are over 65year olds)
interesting report from today's New York Times :-
...........From 2000 to 2006, the number of older criminals soared by 160 percent, to 46,637, from 17,942, according to Japan’s National Police Agency. Shoplifting accounted for 54% of the total in 2006 and petty theft for 23%............at an average age of 74 — with the oldest at 88 — these were not typical inmates. Work was kept light, and if any felt ill, they could lie down nearby on a tatami mat. Prescription drugs, wheeled walkers and a stretcher were also kept on hand, as well as a box of “discreet, underwearlike” adult diapers........“In our workshop for the elderly, we definitely receive preferential treatment,” said one 76-year-old, who works six hours a day, or two hours less than younger inmates with more strenuous jobs. “In general, you know, the conditions are much, much more severe.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/03/world/asia/03japan.ht...login
shoplifters, petty thieves, hooligans & counter social elements.
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