KOCHI Supporters for former fishermen who were exposed to radiation from U.S. hydrogen bomb testing at Bikini Atoll nearly seven decades ago resorted to crowdfunding to meet mounting court costs.
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.
Population trends in Japan brought on primarily by the rapid aging of society, coupled with a dwindling birthrate, will require a drastic redistribution of seat numbers for the Lower House to maintain some semblance of equality in the value of a vote.
A Japanese court becomes the second to rule that the vote weight disparity in last year s general election was "in a state of unconstitutionality," but it also stops short of nullifying the outcome as sought by plaintiffs.
A Japanese court on Thursday became the second to rule that the vote weight disparity in last year's general election was "in a state of unconstitutionality," but it also stopped short of nullifying the outcome as sought by plaintiffs. The ruling by the Osaka High Court was the third to…