賠償増額７億３５００万円に＝飛行差し止めは認めず－岩国基地騒音訴訟・広島高裁

　米軍と海上自衛隊が共同使用する岩国基地（山口県岩国市）の周辺住民ら約６５０人が、国を相手に騒音被害の損害賠償や艦載機の飛行差し止めなどを求めた訴訟の控訴審判決が２５日、広島高裁であった。森一岳裁判長は一審に続き国に賠償を命じ、賠償額を総額約５億５８００万円から約７億３５００万円に増額した。将来分の賠償や飛行差し止めなどは認めなかった。
　森裁判長は、航空機騒音の国際基準「うるささ指数」（Ｗ値）７５以上の区域に居住する原告は、遅くとも１９７４年ごろ以降、「看過することのできないさまざまな影響を受け、滑走路の沖合移設で軽減されたとはいえ被害を受けている」と指摘。２００６年から今年１月２５日の結審時までの賠償を命じた。
　賠償額については、滑走路移設前のＷ９０以上区域を月額１万６０００円とした一審山口地裁岩国支部の判決を変更。Ｗ９５の区域は月額２万円に増額した。一部の原告は除外され、将来分の賠償は「適格を有しない」として却下した。（2019/10/25-17:07）

Hiroshima High Court on Friday increased damages against the state from a lower court ruling in a lawsuit over noise from the Iwakuni base shared by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps.
   The high court ordered the national government to pay a total of 735 million yen in damages to local residents, against the 558 million yen in the 2015 ruling by the Iwakuni branch of Yamaguchi District Court.
   Meanwhile, the high court rejected the plaintiffs' claim for damages for the base's noise in the future, as well as their request to stop flights from an aircraft carrier at the base in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
   In the high court ruling, Presiding Judge Kazutake Mori said the plaintiffs, who live in areas with aircraft noise levels of 75 or over on the weighted equivalent continuous perceived noise level, or WECPNL, an international gauge measuring aircraft noise, have been suffering "various intolerable effects" since 1974 or earlier, although noise was eased after a runway was moved off the coast in 2010.
   The high court ruled that the government should pay compensation to them for the period between 2006 and Jan. 25, 2019, when the final court hearing was held in the lawsuit.