A panel of experts tasked with reforming the Lower House electoral system on Thursday calls for the abolition of 10 lower chamber seats and the reallocation of others from areas of low population to dense urban areas.
The reform would rectify gaps in the weight of votes between constituencies. It would also cut the total number of seats to a postwar low of 465.
The proposal, submitted to Lower House Speaker Tadamori Oshima, calls for narrowing the vote-value disparity between constituencies with the most and least voters to a ratio of less than 2:1.