Mayor Okawa, a child victim of a tsunami, apologizes to the bereaved family Miyagi Ishinomaki December 1, 19:38
Kameyama Satoshi, Ishinomaki City, on the 1st, after the decision on the Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, where a large number of children were killed by the tsunami of the Great East Japan Earthquake, confirmed that the city and the prefecture were ordered to compensate. The mayor met the child's bereaved family and formally apologized.
In October, the Supreme Court appealed to the Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, where 84 children and faculty and staff were sacrificed in the tsunami of the earthquake. Judgment that admitted deficiency and ordered compensation to city and prefecture was settled.
In response to this, Mayor Kameyama of Ishinomaki City and the staff of the Board of Education met with about 30 people including the bereaved family. And Mayor Kameyama said, “I feel deeply the seriousness of having caused the future of precious life to be lost at a school that should be the safest and most secure for children. Said and formally apologized.
Opinions were exchanged after this, and the bereaved side requested that the response at the time of the earthquake be re-examined, and that a place for considering future disaster prevention measures at the school be established.
After the meeting, Mayor Kameyama and others visited Okawa Elementary School at the request of the bereaved family, and after receiving hands with an incense stick, they received explanations from the bereaved family who had talked about lessons and other activities.
Mr. Takahiro Shimomo, who lost his fifth daughter who was a fifth grader, said, “I'm sorry that the mayor finally said“ I ’m sorry ”from the mayor.