Diet turmoil continues as talks for compromise fail

Diet turmoil continues as talks for compromise fail

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's ruling (R) and opposition parties (L) fail to reach a compromise Oct. 17 on a bill to revise the House of Councillors electoral system that would end the opposition's two-week-old boycott of the Diet in protest against the bill. The two camps failed to bridge their differences in a meeting presided over by Vice President Hisamitsu Sugano (C).

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