Overview
- Japan Innovation Party co-leader Fumitake Fujita said on Asahi Broadcasting that dissolving the House of Representatives should be an option if opposition parties block the agreed reduction of seats.
- Fujita framed the stance as a response to having a promised and, in his view, right reform being unfairly crushed.
- He acknowledged that dissolution is the prime minister’s prerogative and reiterated that cuts should target proportional representation seats.
- Ishin leader Hirofumi Yoshimura told Yomiuri TV that failure to submit the seat-reduction bill in the current Diet would break the party’s trust with the LDP.
- Coverage described the remarks as pressure on cautious LDP elements as passage remains uncertain, and opposition leader Yoshihiko Noda criticized invoking dissolution as improper.