The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to acknowledge some of the compensation a lower court awarded residents around the U.S. Yokota Air Base in Tokyo for aircraft noise, shaving some 230 million yen from the previous 3.25 billion yen total.
Three of the five justices on the top court's Third Petty Bench rejected the Tokyo High Court decision in 2005 to raise the amount of compensation by extending the deadline on which damages were calculated from the day the legal proceedings ended to the day the ruling was issued.
However, one of the two dissenting judges called for further review of legal precedent.