Vote-value Disparities in Senate Elections: Speed up Electoral Reform without Sticking to Correcting Disparities
In electoral reform for the Senate, formerly called the House of Councillors, there was such a fixation on equality in the value of votes that even a system was introduced in which two prefectures were merged into a single constituency. The population gap between urban and rural areas continues to widen.
We haven't written up this one. The Japan News by The Yomiuri Shimbun has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
