Editorials Nov 24, 2013
The Diet and government should immediatly start working out a way to drastically reduce disparities in vote values.
Editorials Jul 27, 2013
As soon as the results were announced for last week's Upper House election, lawsuits were filed demanding the nullifcation because of vote-vale disparities.
Editorials Jun 27, 2013
Ruling coalition party members in the Lower House ramrod passage of an overdue reapportionment measure that only begins to address vote-value disparities.
National / Politics Apr 12, 2013
Cabinet OKs bill to pare gap in vote values
by Ayako Mie
On the heels of a spate of court rulings that the general election was unconstitutional and even invalid, the Cabinet approves a bill to rectify vote-value disparities.
Editorials Apr 1, 2013
A Lower House panel recommends a makeshift measure to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to rectify vote-value disparities among single-seat districts.
Editorials Mar 28, 2013
Six courts declare apportionment for the Dec. 16 Lower House election unconstitutional, signaling more judicial irritation with vote-value disparity.