Final rulings in 16 lawsuits filed by two groups of lawyers at high courts and their branches around Japan over the burning issue of vote disparities in the July Upper House election were handed down by Nov. 15.
The Sendai High Court has ruled that the disparity of up to 3.03-fold in July s upper house election was unconstitutional, but stops short of nullifying the poll results in five northeastern Japan constituencies as sought by plaintiffs.
SENDAI The high court here ruled Nov. 1 that the Upper House election held in July with slightly more than a three-fold disparity in the value of a vote was unconstitutional.
FUTABA, Fukushima Prefecture Tokyo Electric Power Co. apologized to a group of plaintiffs who won a damages suit against the utility for the first time under the name of its president.