Two high school teachers and a retired colleague were given prison terms of two years each 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.Considered an unusually heavy sentence for an educational setting, the three, who conducted the lesson, were convicted of professional negligence resulting in the eight deaths and injuries to five others in the town of Nasu in Tochigi Prefecture on March 27, 2017. Their defense team had sought an acquittal.In handing down the ruling at the Utsunomiya Dist…READ FULL ARTICLE
