3-year-old child dies, left behind on school bus, third-party committee says. Report says former director had "weak awareness and insufficient knowledge of safety management" China Kawamoto (age 3 at the time), who was attending the school, was left behind for about five hours inside a school bus that was parked in the parking lot of Kawasaki Kindergarten, a certified children's school in Makinohara City.
Mayor Motohisa Sugimoto: "We will take the contents of the report seriously, steadily implement the points for improvement"