Japan co-op official to oversee unions in Asia

TOKYO, Japan - Satoko Horiuchi, an official of the Japanese Consumers' Cooperative Union, gives an interview in Tokyo on March 24, 2014 before being dispatched to the Switzerland-headquartered International Labor Organization next month to support the operation of cooperative unions in Asia for the next two years.

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