U.S. students send letters, stone to Ikeda school students

LOS ANGELES, United States - Photo shows Steve Heermann, a teacher at Helen Estock Elementary in Tustin, California, and some of his students who sent letters and a ''compassion stone'' to pupils and teachers at the Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture to encourage them after hearing about the June 8 attack in which eight pupils were stabbed to death and 13 others and two teachers injured.