Panel urges lower house seat cut, method to limit vote weight disparity

House of Representatives Speaker Tadamori Oshima (R) receives a proposal on electoral reform from Takeshi Sasaki, head of a panel concerning the issue, at the parliament building in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2016. The panel proposed cutting 10 seats in the chamber and adopting a new method for the allocation of seats to each prefecture in order to address vote weight disparities among single-seat electoral districts. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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