TOKYO - Two high school teachers and a retired colleague were given prison terms on Thursday over the deaths of seven students and a fellow teacher in an avalanche that struck during a mountaineering lesson north of Tokyo in 2017.
A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered the Tochigi prefectural government and a high school athletic federation to pay 290 million yen in damages to the families of five people killed in an avalanche during a mountaineering course in March 2017. Three instructors responsible for delivering the course were also defendants…
A Japanese court orders the Tochigi prefectural government and a high school athletic federation to pay 290 million yen ($2 million) in damages to the families of five people killed in an avalanche during a mountaineering course in March 2017.
The family of a Nepalese man who died in police custody in Tokyo was awarded 1 million yen ($7,150) in damages, an amount experts say highlights the discriminatory nature of the State Redress Law.