横田基地騒音訴訟、賠償確定　飛行差し止めは認めず―最高裁

　米軍横田基地（東京都福生市など）の周辺住民が、国に夜間・早朝の航空機の飛行差し止めと、騒音被害に対する賠償を求めた訴訟で、最高裁第２小法廷（菅野博之裁判長）は住民側の上告を退ける決定をした。９日付。飛行差し止めは認めず、過去の騒音被害のみを認定して国に計約７億６８００万円の支払いを命じた二審判決が確定した。
　一審東京地裁立川支部は２０１７年１０月、「騒音で日常生活の妨害などが発生している。国は米軍に実効性のある働き掛けをしていない」と指摘。他の同種訴訟と同じく、航空機騒音の基準「うるささ指数」（Ｗ値）が７５以上の地域で過去の騒音被害を認め、国に総額約６億１８００万円の賠償を命じた。将来分の被害に対する請求と、飛行差し止めは退けた。
　二審東京高裁は１９年６月、７５Ｗ以上の地域について、一審判決から控訴審結審日までの被害額を上乗せした賠償を認定。一審同様、飛行差し止めなどは認めなかった。（2020/12/10-22:07）

Japan's Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal against a high court ruling that ordered the state to pay damages over aircraft noise pollution near the U.S. military's Yokota base in western Tokyo while rejecting plaintiffs' demand for flight suspension.
   The decision was made Wednesday by the top court's Second Petty Bench, presided over by Justice Hiroyuki Kanno.
   This means that the ruling by Tokyo High Court ordering the Japanese government to pay a total of some 768 million yen in damages over noise pollution to some residents living near the Yokota base and the court's rejection of the residents' petition to suspend late-night and early-morning flights have been finalized.
   In October 2017, Tokyo District Court's Tachikawa branch said that the aircraft noise caused interruptions to people's daily lives and that the government failed to take effective measures to prevent such noise pollution.
   The district court ordered the government to pay damages of some 618 million yen in total over past noise pollution to residents living in areas where aircraft noise levels register 75 or higher on the weighted equivalent continuous perceived noise level, or WECPNL, an internationally recognized measure of aircraft noise.