Ex-Rengo chief Sasamori dies at 70

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2005 shows Kiyoshi Sasamori, a former chief of Japan's largest labor organization Rengo and a special advisor to the Cabinet, who died of pneumonia at the age of 70 on June 4, 2011.

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