The former head of a kindergarten in central Japan and a staff member were found guilty on Thursday of professional negligence resulting in the death by heatstroke of a 3-year-old girl who was left in a school van for hours in 2022.The Shizuoka District Court sentenced Tatsuyoshi Masuda, a 74-year-old former principal of the facility in Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture, to 16 months in jail, and Ako Nishihara, 48, who had been responsible for the girl's class, to one year in prison, suspended for three years, over the death of China (pronounced chee-na) Kawamoto."Failing to fulfill the basic…READ FULL ARTICLE
