Sendai High Court on Thursday ordered the Miyagi prefectural and Ishinomaki municipal governments to pay a total of some 1,436 million yen in damages to the families of 23 elementary school children killed in the March 2011 tsunami, slightly raising the compensation amount from that set by a lower
Sendai High Court on Thursday ordered the Miyagi prefectural and Ishinomaki municipal governments to pay a total of some 1,436 million yen in damages to the families of 23 elementary school children killed in the March 2011 tsunami, slightly raising the compensation amount from that set by a lower court.
The higher sum came as the high court newly acknowledged the negligence of defendants to compile antidisaster measures before the tsunami, unleashed by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake that mainly rocked the Tohoku northeastern Japan region on March 11,2011.
