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With a single-seat district to be cut in Yamaguchi, Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could end up fighting for the remaining seats and resulting influence.

A Japanese court rules that the vote weight disparity in last Octobers lower house election was "in a state of unconstitutionality" but stops short of nullifying the outcome, becoming the fourth court to make such a decision.

A Japanese court becomes the second to rule that the vote weight disparity in last years general election was "in a state of unconstitutionality," but it also stops short of nullifying the outcome as sought by plaintiffs.

Members of Martin Luther King Jr.'s family joined marchers Monday in Washington urging Congress to pass voting rights reform.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will have to balance alleviating LDP lawmakers' concerns with an earlier vow to see the reforms through.