{
  "id": 19653744,
  "title": "Vote-value Disparities in Senate Elections: Speed up Electoral Reform without Sticking to Correcting Disparities",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/vote-value-disparities-in-senate-elections-speed-up-electoral-reform",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-12T06:43:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Japan News by The Yomiuri Shimbun",
    "slug": "the-japan-news-by-the-yomiuri-shimbun",
    "url": "https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/editorial/yomiuri-editorial/20261112-358578/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "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."
}