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Mon 04 Apr 2007Violence and intimidation of Japanese politicians on increaseJAPAN:Murderous gangsters and right-wing thugs have forced politicians to keep their heads down, writes  David McNeillin TokyoReligion, ideology, corruption, there is no shortage of excuses for murdering politicians, but Japan may have come up with the strangest one yet: failure to fix potholes.