Panel meets to redraw lower house constituencies

Panel meets to redraw lower house constituencies

TOKYO, Japan - Home Affairs Minister Toranosuke Katayama addresses in a Tokyo hotel on Dec. 25 a government panel tasked with redrawing House of Representatives single-seat constituencies in 10 prefectures. The Council on the House of Representatives Electoral Districts began discussions on reorganizing the constituencies in response to the results of a recent national census.

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