Iccho Itoh

Iccho Itoh
伊藤 一長
Mayor of Nagasaki
In office
2 May 1995 – 18 April 2007
Preceded byHitoshi Motoshima
Succeeded byTomihisa Taue
Personal details
Born(1945-08-23)23 August 1945
Nagato, Yamaguchi, Japan
Died18 April 2007(2007-04-18) (aged 61)
Nagasaki, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party[1]
Alma materWaseda University

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.