Court orders operators to pay damages over tunnel collapse deaths

Relatives of victims killed when the concrete ceiling of the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture collapsed in 2012 head to the Yokohama District Court on Dec. 22, 2015. The court ordered Central Nippon Expressway Co. to pay around 440 million yen ($3.62 million) in damages to the families of five of the nine victims, finding the Nagoya-based expressway operator and its Tokyo-based subsidiary had failed to appropriately maintain and repair the aging structure. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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