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Kin seek damages over deaths of kids in tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Relatives hold portraits of dead children as they enter the Sendai District Court in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 10, 2014. The relatives of 23 elementary school students who were killed in the March 2011 tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, filed a damages suit, arguing the children died because the school failed to evacuate them to higher ground.

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Kin seek damages over deaths of kids in tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Relatives hold portraits of dead children as they enter the Sendai District Court in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 10, 2014. The relatives of 23 elementary school students who were killed in the March 2011 tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, filed a damages suit, arguing the children died because the school failed to evacuate them to higher ground.

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Suit over death of elementary school kids in tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Kazutaka Sato prays in front of a cenotaph at Okawa elementary school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 10, 2014. Bereaved family members, including Sato, of 23 students at the school who were killed in the March 11, 2011 tsunami filed a damages suit the same day, arguing the children died because the school failed to evacuate them to higher ground. At the school, 74 of the 108 students died or remain unaccounted for, and 10 of the 13 teachers and school officials died in the wake of the tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake.

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Suit over death of elementary school kids in tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Photo shows Okawa elementary school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 10, 2014. Bereaved families of 23 students at the school who were killed in the March 11, 2011 tsunami filed a damages suit the same day, arguing the children died because the school failed to evacuate them to higher ground. At the school, 74 of the 108 students died or remain unaccounted for, and 10 of the 13 teachers and school officials died in the wake of the tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake.

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Disaster-hit kids' photo album

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 23, 2012, shows ''3/11 Kids Photo Journal,'' a photo album of pictures taken by 33 elementary and junior high school students in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures hit by March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which was published the same day by Kodansha Ltd.

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Hiroshima students call for peace at Children's Peace Monument

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Some 400 elementary and junior high school students take part in a ceremony in front of the Children's Peace Monument at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on July 23, 2010, ahead of the 65th anniversary of the atomic-bomb attack on Aug. 6.

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Students take national achievement tests under new format

TOKYO, Japan - School children sit to take annual national achievement tests at an elementary school in Tokyo on April 20, 2010. More than 1.6 million students at 23,875 elementary and junior high schools across Japan took annual national achievement tests under a scaled-back format adopted by the current government that limits schools required to participate.

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Students take national achievement tests under new format

TOKYO, Japan - School children sit to take annual national achievement tests at an elementary school in Tokyo on April 20, 2010. More than 1.6 million students at 23,875 elementary and junior high schools across Japan took annual national achievement tests under a scaled-back format adopted by the current government that limits schools required to participate.

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Yumemi Shigemi (left), president of Yumemi, and Kubo, chairman and president of EDION

On April 23, EDION announced that it had acquired all shares of Yumemi (Yodogawa Ward, Osaka City), which operates a children's programming school called "Robodan," making it a subsidiary. The company said the shares were acquired from Akinori Shigemi, president of Yumemiru, and venture capitalists. In December 2018, EDION entered the robot programming education business for elementary and junior high school students, accelerating the expansion of the business in anticipation of making programming education compulsory in elementary schools from fiscal 2008. The amount of the stock acquisition is estimated to be around 1 billion yen. Photo taken on December 23, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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5th anniversary of Japan's March 2011 disaster

Combination photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 23, 2011, (top) and Feb. 15, 2016, shows an elementary school in the northeastern Japanese city of Ishinomaki devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. It is still under consideration whether to scrap the school or maintain it as remains of the disaster. At the school, a total of 84 students, teachers and staff members were killed or remain unaccounted for. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima school holds 1st graduation ceremony since nuclear crisis

Two graduating pupils at a public primary school formerly in the evacuated town of Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, are seen off by teachers and current students on March 23, 2015, after a graduation ceremony held at a temporary school building in the prefecture's Iwaki city. They became the first students to graduate from the Futaba Kita Elementary School since the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Combined photo shows the tsunami-devastated Okawa Elementary School (L) in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, pictured on March 23, 2011, and the now-defunct school's building (R) pictured on Feb. 14, 2021, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. The structure will be preserved as a reminder of the tsunami that hit the school, leaving 74 students and 10 school officials dead.

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Damages ordered over tsunami deaths of elementary school students

File photo taken in March, 2011, shows a pile of school bags retrieved from Okawa Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, after the school was hit by the tsunami that followed a major earthquake in northeastern Japan. The Sendai District Court ordered on Oct. 26, 2016, the city and the prefecture to pay roughly 1.4 billion yen ($13.4 million) in damages to the families of 23 school students killed in the tsunami, judging the city-run school failed to evacuate the children appropriately. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima students call for peace at Children's Peace Monument

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Some 400 elementary and junior high school students take part in a ceremony in front of the Children's Peace Monument at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on July 23, 2010, ahead of the 65th anniversary of the atomic-bomb attack on Aug. 6. (Kyodo)

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Tsunami-hit elementary school in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Photo taken on March 23, 2011, shows a snapshot of students attending an event during the previous year that was discovered at the tsunami-hit Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The school was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11. (Kyodo)

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Trophies made of debris

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Goshi Hosono (2nd from R in rear row) poses with graduating elementary school students from Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, at an exhibition in Tokyo's Ginza district on March 23, 2012. The exhibition features trophies made by the children from debris of areas hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami. The event is aimed at promoting the central government's drive to seek disposal of the debris outside disaster areas. (Kyodo)

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Disaster-hit kids' photo album

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 23, 2012, shows ''3/11 Kids Photo Journal,'' a photo album of pictures taken by 33 elementary and junior high school students in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures hit by March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which was published the same day by Kodansha Ltd. (Kyodo)

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Disaster-hit kids' photo album

TOKYO, Japan - Yuma Watanabe (R), a second-year junior high school student in Fukushima Prefecture, Haruki Kanno (2nd from R), a sixth-grade elementary school student in Iwate Prefecture, and other children see the bookbinding process for ''3/11 Kids Photo Journal,'' at a printing company in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Feb. 10, 2012. The photo album of pictures taken by 33 elementary and junior high school students in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures hit by March 2011 earthquake and tsunami was published on Feb. 23, 2012, by Kodansha Ltd. (Kyodo)

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Damages ordered over tsunami deaths of elementary school students

People offer prayers on Oct. 26, 2016 in front of damaged Okawa Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, where 74 students and 10 teachers were killed by a tsunami following a major earthquake in northeastern Japan in 2011. The Sendai District Court ordered the city and prefecture on Oct. 26 to pay roughly 1.4 billion yen ($13.4 million) in damages to 23 families that filed suit against them, judging the city-run school failed to evacuate the children appropriately. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Damages ordered over tsunami deaths of elementary school students

Family members of Okawa Elementary School students killed in the tsunami that followed the huge earthquake in northeastern Japan in 2011 hold up signs showing the Sendai District Court's acceptance of their claim in the damages suit in front of the court in Sendai on Oct. 26, 2016. The court ordered the city of Ishinomaki and Miyagi Prefecture to pay roughly 1.4 billion yen ($13.4 million) in damages to the families of 23 elementary school students, judging the city-run school failed to evacuate the children appropriately. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ruling on damages over school kids' deaths in tsunami

People who lost their children in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster head to the Sendai District Court on Oct. 26, 2016, to hear its ruling on their damages suit. Seventy-four students of Okawa elementary school in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki died or remain unaccounted for, of whom the families of 23 sought compensation from local authorities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ruling on damages over school kids' deaths in tsunami

People mourn victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster on Oct. 26, 2016, in front of Okawa elementary school in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki, where 74 students died or remain unaccounted for. Of the 74, the families of 23 students filed a damages suit seeking compensation from local authorities, and the Sendai District Court will hand down a ruling later in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ruling on damages over school kids' deaths in tsunami

People mourn victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster on Oct. 25, 2016, in front of Okawa elementary school in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki, where 74 students died or remain unaccounted for. Of the 74, the families of 23 students filed a damages suit seeking compensation from local authorities, and the Sendai District Court will hand down a ruling on Oct. 26. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ruling on damages over school kids' deaths in tsunami

People mourn victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster on Oct. 25, 2016, in front of Okawa elementary school in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki, where 74 students died or remain unaccounted for. Of the 74, the families of 23 students filed a damages suit seeking compensation from local authorities, and the Sendai District Court will hand down a ruling on Oct. 26. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ruling on damages over school kids' deaths in tsunami

People mourn victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster on Oct. 25, 2016, in front of Okawa elementary school in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki, where 74 students died or remain unaccounted for. Of the 74, the families of 23 students filed a damages suit seeking compensation from local authorities, and the Sendai District Court will hand down a ruling on Oct. 26. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo