Threat to young eels. Cause for conservation measures are mounting before they disappear forever. Japans Supreme Court justices have been taking a closer look at last years diet election. They ruled a disparity in the value of one vote was in a state of unconstitutionality. The upper house election was held in july 2013. Tokyo had the highest number of eligible voters. More than 10. 5 million. They were casting ballots for five diet seats. Thats a little more than 2 million potential votes per lawmaker. Totory prefecture had fewer than half a million voters. They were casting ballots for a single diet seat. That means an individual vote in tottori was worth 4. 5 times a vote in tokyo. It was between tottori and northern prefecture hokkaido was 4. 77 times. Two groups of lawyers demanded su filed suit demanding they throw out the election. It violates the principle of voter equality. The presiding judge said the disparity in the value of ballots was extremely unequal but stopped short o
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Digging deeper. The sesech goes on for possible active faults beneath japans Nuclear Plants. They could lead to permanent shutdown of several reactors. Welcome to nhk world newsline. Inspectors from Japans Nuclear Regulation Authority said a new Nuclear Power plan in the northern japan may be sitting on active seismic faults. A team of five experts concluded their twoday inspection at the higashidori plant in aomori prefecture. They concentrated on two faults in the compound. Official from the plants operator told the Power Company that a shift in the strata was caused by ground water. They say it wasnt the result of an active fault. Investigators say they cannot rule out the possibility that the two faults are active. They say they will be able to come to a finding without additional surveys. The Nuclear Regulation authority says all members of the team share the same view. He says theres evidence that the faults have moved. Officials with the authority will meet to discuss the matter
Prefecture. They concentrated on two faults in the compound. Official from the plants operator told the Power Company that a shift in the strata was caused by ground water. They say it wasnt the result of an active fault. Investigators say they cannot rule out the possibility that the two faults are active. They say they will be able to come to a finding without additional surveys. The Nuclear Regulation authority says all members of the team share the same view. He says theres evidence that the faults have moved. Officials with the authority will meet to discuss the matter next thursday. The electric plant say the faults are not located directly beneath the regulators but if the are active they have to review their measures and give up resuming operations at the plant any time soon. The higashidori facility is the Third Nuclear plant in japan to undergo fault inspections. Some residents who fled the crisis at the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant may soon be able to go home. Japanese gov