Boundary changes advised for 140 Japan lower house constituencies

A Japanese government panel advised Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday that boundaries in a record 140 constituencies in 25 prefectures for House of Representatives elections should be revised to address vote weight disparities.The changes would be the fourth since single-seat constituencies were introduced in 1994, affecting almost half of the country's 289 districts, and would reduce the vote weight disparity in lower house elections from a potentially unconstitutional 2.096-fold difference to a 1.999-fold one.Japan's top court has found disparities of more than 2.0 problematic, lea…READ FULL ARTICLE