Public prosecutors on Thursday demanded a prison term of two years and six months for the former head of a kodomoen kindergarten-nursery hybrid in central Japan over a 2022 incident in which a 3-year-old girl died of heatstroke after being left in the school's bus.
The punishment for Tatsuyoshi Masuda, 74, was sought during the day's hearing in a trial at the Shizuoka District Court.
A prison term of one year was sought for Ako Nishihara, 48, a former teacher of the girl, China Kawamoto, who had been attending the kodomoen facility, Kawasaki Yochien, in the city of Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture.
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