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Episode 45: Shinkansen Stabbing 2018
The Shinkansen is not just a train. It is a symbol. When it launched in October 1964 — the same week as the Tokyo Olympics — it represented Japan's postwar comeback: the country that had been reduced to rubble nineteen years earlier had built the fastest train on earth. And in the sixty years since, Japan's bullet trains have carried billions of passengers without a single fatality caused by a collision or derailment. Zero. The Shinkansen is held up as proof of what Japanese engineering and discipline can achieve. So here is what happened on a Saturday night in June 2018. The Nozomi 265…
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