Kurokawa v. Chiba Prefecture Election Commission
Japan Supreme Court
30 Minshu 3 223 (1976)
- Written by Mary Katherine Cunningham, JD
Facts
The apportionment of seats in the Diet, the Japanese legislature, was determined by census data. In 1964, the Diet enacted the Election Law to effectuate the apportionment of electoral districts in the prefectures. The apportionment of the Diet in 1964 was based on census data from 1946. By the elections of 1972 for the House of Representatives, the apportionment of seats in the Diet had not changed since 1964. As a result of the lack of reapportionment, rural areas enjoyed greater representation in the Diet than urban areas. In 1976, the Japan Supreme Court reviewed a constitutional challenge on appeal to the 1972 elections for the House of Representatives in the Chiba First District. The challenge argued that the Public Office Election Law required reapportionment every five years based on data from the most recent national census and that the Chiba election violated the requirements of the Public Office Election Law.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Per curiam)
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