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National / Crime & Legal May 25, 2016

Settlement reached over student deaths at tsunami-hit driving school

The families of 25 teens killed in the 2011 tsunami while they were at a driving school in Miyagi Prefecture reached a financial settlement with the school on Wednesday in a deal that also includes an apology from the latter over the deaths. In the ...

National / Crime & Legal Jan 13, 2015

Miyagi driving school ordered to pay damages over 3/11 tsunami deaths

The Sendai District Court orders a driving school in Mi­ya­gi Prefecture to pay ¥1.9 billion in damages to relatives of 25 students and a part-time employee who died in the March 11, 2011, tsunami.