I had to clean up a lot more tonight, but I couldn't.
If the massacre at Virginia Tech had been the top news as expected, I would have concentrated on my work, but...
shocking news of the night: the Nagasaki City mayor shot and severely wounded!
I was glued to the television, as all the news programs had this story on the top. I was rather a one of the audience rather than the member of the broadcasting team tonight!
And without finishing any of the things I had to, I have a pile of work waiting for me tomorrow!
今夜もっと片付けなきゃいけなかったのに、無理だった。
予定通りバージニア工科大の大量殺人がトップニュースだったんなら、仕事に集中できたかもしれないけど…
写真：夜の衝撃的なニュース：長崎市長が撃たれて、重態に！
テレビに釘付けになった。すべてのニュース番組がこの事件をトップニュースにしていた。今夜は放送する側というより、視聴者の一人として見ていたよ！
やらなきゃいけないことが全く終わらず、明日山積みになった仕事が待っているよ！
（共同の記事、以下に。和訳は略）
(news from Kyodo)
◆Nagasaki Mayor Ito shot, still in critical condition
NAGASAKI, April 18 KYODO
Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito was shot twice by a gunman Tuesday evening in front of JR Nagasaki Station and is in a life-threatening condition, an incident that has shocked citizens in the city where Ito's predecessor was also seriously injured by a gunman in 1990, and outraged government leaders.
It is not known whether Tuesday's incident in the western Japan city, which suffered a U.S. atomic bomb attack in 1945, was for political motives against Ito who has been working for the abolition of nuclear arms and helping atomic-bomb victims.
The alleged shooter, Tetsuya Shiroo, 59, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder after being subdued by staff members of Ito's office when he tried to run away, the police said. The suspect is an acting leader of the Suishin-kai gang group affiliated with Japan's largest organized crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi.
Shiroo admitted to shooting the 61-year-old mayor and said he had trouble with the city office over public works biddings, the police said, adding they seized a revolver.
''I fired several shots for the purpose of killing Mayor Ito,'' the suspect was quoted as telling the police.
Meanwhile, broadcaster TV Asahi Corp. said in a program that it has received a postal mail bearing Shiroo's name which reads, ''I cannot forgive Mayor Itcho Ito.''
The mail also referred to matters including trouble with the city office over public works biddings, according to the report by the Tokyo-based TV network.
People close to the suspects said Shiroo made complaints to the city government in 2003 over an accident in which part of his vehicle fell into a hole at a construction site of the project ordered by the city.
The attack prompted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other lawmakers both in ruling and opposition camps to voice their anger and call for a thorough investigation.
''I want the investigating authorities to conduct a rigorous probe and get to the truth,'' Abe said in a statement. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki called the shooting ''absolutely unforgivable.''
Ito was seeking his fourth four-year term in Sunday's mayoral election in the city.
Ito was shot twice in the back at a one-meter point-blank range at 7:52 p.m. in front of the station shortly after getting off a campaign vehicle near his campaign office, according to the police and Ito's office.
He was immediately taken to a hospital, where his heart and lungs have ceased movement, the police said.
After the mayor underwent an emergency operation from around 8:45 p.m., the hospital said Ito remains unconscious and in an extremely serious condition with an artificial heart-lung machine attached.
''The prospects for resuscitation are very bleak,'' the hospital said at a press conference, noting that a bullet had reached his heart and that he had a feeble pulse.
Hiroki Hisano, 51, who runs a convenience store near the station, said, ''It is unforgivable to resort to violence regardless of motives. In Nagasaki, a former mayor was assaulted in the past. I'm worried that no one will come forward to become mayor.''
Shoko Takahira, a 59-year-old self-employed woman, said, ''I feel sorry and mortified to see a person who led citizens in promoting peace in the world being gunned down.''
Ito, formerly a Nagasaki city assembly member and Nagasaki prefectural assembly member, has made a number of statements and remarks to promote peace since he was first elected in 1995 as mayor of Nagasaki, which was devastated by the atomic bomb dropped in World War II.
In January 1990 in the city, former Mayor Hitoshi Motoshima was shot and seriously injured by a right-wing extremist after he refused to retract controversial remarks that the late Emperor Hirohito was partially responsible for the war.
==Kyodo
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