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The Amagasaki derailment (JR福知山線脱線事故, JR Fukuchiyama-sen dassen jiko, lit. "JR Fukuchiyama Line derailment") occurred in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, on 25 April 2005 at 09:19 local time (00:19 UTC ), just after the local rush hour. It occurred when a seven-car commuter train came off the tracks on West Japan Railway ...
A. Accidents and incidents involving Japanese National Railways (7 P) Accidents and incidents involving Tokyo Metro (1 P)
A Shigaraki Kōgen Railway (SKR) train and a West Japan Railway Company (JR West) train collided head-on, killing 42 people and injuring 614 others. Until the Amagasaki derailment in 2005, this was the deadliest railway disaster in Japan since the Yokohama rail crash of 1963, which killed 161 people.
Railway accidents and incidents involving the Japanese National Railways system in Japan. Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving Japanese National Railways" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Injured. 100+. The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck is the largest single rail disaster in world history by death toll, with 1,700 fatalities or more. It occurred when a crowded passenger train (No 50, Matara Express) was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by a tsunami that followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
105,385[ 1] 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. Earthquake and Tsunami. 1 Sep 1923. Kantō Plains, Honshu. Deadliest disaster in Japanese history. The Japanese government report in 1927 put the number of victims at 140,000; this was adjusted downwards to 105,385 deaths in 2006. 21,959 (Official) 1896 Sanriku earthquake.
Accident. At around 9 a.m. on 8 March 2000, the rearmost car of an eight-car TRTA Hibiya Line (now Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line) train from Kita-Senju to Kikuna derailed on the tight curve immediately before Naka-Meguro Station. The derailed car was then hit by the fifth and sixth cars of an eight-car Tobu Railway train travelling in the opposite ...
The Sankei Shimbun (産経新聞, Sankei Shinbun), name short for Sangyō Keizai Shinbun (産業経済新聞, lit."Industrial and Economic News"), is a daily national newspaper [12] in Japan published by the Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd, ranking amongst the top 5 most circulated newspapers in Japan.