Ex-lawmaker Sato dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 1999 shows former lawmaker Koko Sato who died of biliary cancer on May 18, 2011, at the age of 83. Sato was arrested over a high-profile bribery scandal involving Lockheed Corp. in the 1970s. (Kyodo)

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