The issue of voter disparity in national elections is one that has been waged in courts across Japan for decades, always with the same result: That an election was held in a state of unconstitutionality or it wasn’t.
A Japanese high court has ruled that the vote weight disparity in last October s lower house election was constitutional, dismissing the last lawsuit among a group of 16 similar lawsuits filed nationwide.
Draft guidelines for recognizing victims exposed to radioactive “black rain” from the 1945 atomic bombings fall short of the goal of offering full relief to all “hibakusha” survivors.