Nippon Ishin Says Cutting Diet Seats Must for Coalition

Nippon Ishin Says Cutting Diet Seats Must for Coalition
Tokyo, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--The leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party), Hirofumi Yoshimura, said Friday that cutting the number of lawmakers is a nonnegotiable condition for a possible coalition with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Yoshimura, also Osaka governor, called the reduction in the seats of the Diet, the country's parliament, an "absolute condition" in a remar...