(2)Sasamori reelected Rengo president

(2)Sasamori reelected Rengo president

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoshi Sasamori, reelected president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), the country's largest labor organization, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 3. Sasamori, 62, easily beat challenger Tsuyoshi Takagi, 60, head of the Japanese Federation of Textile, Chemical, Food, Commercial, Service and General Workers' Unions (UI Zensen Domei), Japan's largest private-sector union federation with about 784,000 members.

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