Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday proposed a compromise plan that would cut fewer Diet seats than its junior coalition partner seeks and introduce a proportional seat allocation system more favorable to smaller parties.At a meeting of parties on the electoral system, the LDP proposed cutting 31 proportional representation seats in the House of Representatives based on projected population decline, fewer than the 45 sought by the Japan Innovation Party.The compromise comes amid opposition resistance to the seat cuts as the ruling coalition seeks to pass the bill before the …READ FULL ARTICLE
