{
  "id": 19653737,
  "title": "Japan Supreme Court’s Ruling on 2025 Upper House Election Reflects Growing Frustration with Lack of Progress on Electoral Reform",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/japan-supreme-courts-ruling-on-2025-upper-house-election-reflects",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-12T07:27:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Japan News by The Yomiuri Shimbun",
    "slug": "the-japan-news-by-the-yomiuri-shimbun",
    "url": "https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/crime-courts/20261112-358604/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that last year’s election in the House of Councillors, now called the Senate, in which the maximum vote-value disparity was 3.13 to 1, was in a “state of unconstitutionality.”",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}