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Okawa Elementery School
	Devastated classrooms at the school in 2017.
Date	11 March 2011
Location	Ishinomaki City, Miyagi, Japan
Coordinates	38°32′47″N 141°25′43″E / 38.5463°N 141.4285°E
Deaths	84

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38°32′47″N 141°25′43″E / 38.5463°N 141.4285°E / 38.5463; 141.4285

Okawa Elementary School (Japanese: 大川小学校, Hepburn: Ōkawa Shōgakkō) was an educational institution in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The school was destroyed in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. In total 108 students had been sheltering in the school on the instructions of their teachers rather than evacuating to higher ground after the earthquake. 74 of the 78 students still present were killed as the tsunami soon ran up the nearby Kitakami River, including ten of the eleven teachers. It was found that the school was unprepared for such an event, and that the scale of the tsunami had not been realized until it was too late. In 2014, the families of 23 of the children who died sued Ishinomaki City and Miyagi Prefecture for compensation.^[1] In October 2016, they were awarded compensation of ¥1.4 billion (US$12.8 million).^[2]

References

^ "The school beneath the wave: the unimaginable tragedy of Japan's tsunami". the Guardian. 2017-08-24. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
^ "大川小津波訴訟、市と県に14億円賠償命令仙台地裁". 産経フォト (in Japanese). SANKEI DIGITAL INC. 2016-10-26. Retrieved 13 September 2022.

[1] "The school beneath the wave: the unimaginable tragedy of Japan's tsunami". the Guardian. 2017-08-24. Retrieved 2022-08-30.

[2] "大川小津波訴訟、市と県に14億円賠償命令仙台地裁". 産経フォト (in Japanese). SANKEI DIGITAL INC. 2016-10-26. Retrieved 13 September 2022.

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