Kindergarten ordered to pay $ 1.8 million to parents from four families . Score: 6 Five children and one staff member on the bus were killed in the disaster in March 2011 . Chief judge Norio Saiki said in the verdict that staff at the kindergarten in Ishinomaki city , which suffered widespread destruction in the March , 2011 , disaster , could have expected a large tsunami from such a powerful quake . The verdict is the first of its kind in Japan and is expected to affect other cases .
Kindergarten ordered to pay $ 1.8 million to parents from four families . Score: 6 Five children and one staff member on the bus were killed in the disaster in March 2011 . The verdict is the first of its kind in Japan and is expected to affect other cases .