LDP less eager than JIP on Lower House seat cut

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, are slated to resume later this month working-level talks on cutting the number of the House of Representatives seats by 10%.

Last month, the two parties' leaders confirmed a policy of aiming to enact a related bill during the ongoing session of the country's parliament.

The LDP is less enthusiastic than the JIP about the matter, however, after it won more than two-thirds of the 465 seats in the all-important lower Diet chamber in the Feb. 8 general election.

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