Overview
- The Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday offered a compromise to reduce House of Representatives proportional seats by 31 and to switch allocation from the current D'Hondt method to a modified Sainte‑Laguë formula.
- Nippon Ishin said it would not oppose the LDP plan and the Kokumin Democratic Party described parts of it as worthy of praise, with negotiators aiming to reach a deal by the end of the month.
- In the professional baseball draft on Thursday the Yomiuri Giants used a developmental pick on 14-year-old catcher Sek Rentaro and the Hokkaido Nippon‑Ham Fighters secured negotiating rights to two-way high-school star Komoda Haruki with their first-round pick.
- Okinawan high schools Koza and Okinawa Shogaku held send-offs at Naha Airport before the Kyushu Autumn Tournament that begins Oct. 24 in Kumamoto, with Koza making its first Kyushu appearance in 99 seasons and Okinawa Shogaku chasing a fifth straight national bid.
- Public events on Thursday also included a Nagoya District Court judge ordering a disruptive defendant to leave a lay-judge trial and a speech in Osaka by the South Korean consul-general calling for expanded exchanges between Japanese and Korean local governments.