The Amagasaki Train Disaster 2005 | Plainly Difficult Documentary

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25 April 2005 at 09:19 local time a packed commuter train crashed into an apartment block just outside Amagasaki, Japan…..

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38 thoughts on “The Amagasaki Train Disaster 2005 | Plainly Difficult Documentary”

  4. In Japan they have Business Hours.
    This is the time in which men and women
    are headed to work. During this time train
    times are strictly enforced. If you are late to
    work due to a train and you lose your job.
    You are with in your rights to sue the train line
    for lost wages. So most of the time the trains run at
    nearly full speed to remain on time.

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  8. I think the schedule is too tightly followed in Japan. In my own country, a train is considered to be "on time" if it is within 180 seconds, and while that might not work in Japan, where people need the trains to be 100% accurate, I really think something like 1-1,5 minutes should be accepted more. This is just my opinion based on my own experiences, and I have never been to Japan before, but I really think "retraining" an employee because of a 90 second delay, especially in the unacceptable way they did it, is overreacting a bit and is just sawing the branch that holds them.

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  14. The problem with point and call is that it isn't foolproof – people aren't robots; they possess flaws, and sometimes those flaws are well-disguised until circumstances cause them to abruptly emerge. Thus, the far lighter construction standards on Japanese trains – while they may indeed produce an overall very safe ride experience due to operating practices – really come to the fore when someone fails in this manner. I'd much prefer the American system of design that simply assumes that crashes will happen, and attempts to build rolling stock as robustly as is reasonable.

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  20. Japanese railways seem to do everything better than railways in the west. Even their rail disasters are bigger and better. The toll here was incomprehensible. The 7.5 earthquake in SF in 1989 had only 45 related deaths. 500+ casualties in one swipe. Wowwwww! inner city drivers memo:. Obey the rules when you are on duty NO deviations are acceptable when a railtrain is hurling down the tracks at 75mph.

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  23. The narrow gauge, buildings to close to the tracks, and precision scheduling, all add up to a scenario, such as this. It's all because of money, and population. Maybe, curbing how many people there are, will someday have, to be necessary. Not just Japan, but worldwide. Japan's population, as the rest of 1st., World nations, have DOUBLED their population, since WWll. It's as if WWll (which claimed 72 million people), never happened.

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  25. "After this short youtube ad break. "
    Big bro, you gotta teach me how to get thos done. For the first time I didn't mind the ads as you created a gap in the content for it. Both yt amd other Youtubers should look into it.
    Cheers bro.

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  26. This is just a hunch, but am I right in assuming it might be safer in general to sit in a car in the back, should the worst come to pass (though then what if a train got hit from behind :o)

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  31. Japan has a culture of EVERYTHING having to be absolutely perfect. No exceptions and no excuses. There is no room for human-error. Mistakes are NEVER allowed, under ANY circumstances. And everybody is put under extreme pressure by family, colleagues and superiors until the wire finally snaps and it all culminates into several tons of heavy machinery smashing through an apartment complex.

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  34. Jr west is the one to blame here. When i was riding shinkansen to hiroshima it overshot a station by a few meters in 2006 the train would have over speeded and crashed but afther that crash things changet so the shinkansen continued normslly

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  35. nobody tries as hard to have a perfect society as the Japanese. Everybody is orderly. crime is almost non existent. Everybody has a job. everybody has some school. Bad people get punished. But then there's a tsunami, a psychotic serial killer, a psychotic spree killer and a train wreck. My sympathies to Japan.

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  36. Japan has such a archaic work ethic due to its mostly 'old school' elite that still cling onto the 'old ways' of running shit. Japan is one of the if not the only few countries that still use fax machines due to amount of older CEO's that refuse to change and adapt.

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