Ex-nursery school principal and employee found guilty in connection with a boy's death on a school bus

The former head of a nursery school in southwestern Japan, along with another staff member, were found guilty on Tuesday of failing to notice that they had left a 5-year-old boy inside a school bus, leading him to die of heatstroke last year.

The Fukuoka District Court sentenced Yoko Urakami, 45, the principal of the nursery school in Nakama, Fukuoka Prefecture, to two years in prison, as well as Noriko Toba, 59, a staff member, to 1....