Japanese parents win payout
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A JAPANESE court yesterday ordered millions of dollars compensation be paid to families of children swept out to sea by a massive 2011 tsunami.
The Sendai District Court in northern Japan ruled two local governments must pay a combined 1.43 billion yen (US$13.7 million) to 29 plaintiffs — parents of 23 children who were killed in the disaster — a court spokesman said.
The victims, from the public Okawa Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, were among a total of 74 children who perished in rising waters after being told to wait for more than 40 minutes at the school grounds with teachers, 10 of whom also died.
The plaintiffs had demanded that Ishinomaki and the larger Miyagi prefecture of which it is a part pay a total of 2.3 billion yen in compensation, arguing their children would have survived if they had evacuated to a hill just behind the school rather than waiting.
“The teachers were able to predict the massive tsunami would reach the school,” presiding judge Kenji Takamiya was quoted as saying.
“Why did my son have to die?” Kazutaka Sato, one of the parents, told NHK.
“I want teachers in Ishinomaki to understand how terrified my son must have been.”
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