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Okawa Elementary School (大川小学校) 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. In October 2016, they were awarded compensation of ¥1.4 billion (US$12.8 million).