Court: July Upper House election invalid due to vote-value disparity

The Hiroshima High Court ruled that the results of the July Upper House election in Okayama were invalid because a vote-value disparity in that constituency was unconstitutionally excessive.

Political donations from utilities to LDP increase threefold after Fukushima accident

Political donations from electric utility company executives to the Liberal Democratic Party in 2012 increased threefold from 2011, the year witnessing the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

State secrets law closely resembles 1941 national defense security law

As criminal law experts have noted, a state secrets protection law looks conspicuously like the prewar security law which brutally restricted free speech and took away citizens’ right to know.