Shouldn't the Japanese better be very quiet about train accidents?
Wasn't one of the worst rail accidents ever because one of their train drivers had to catch up some seconds (!) as he feared to get fired for arriving the second time late (!!) in a month, so he didn't break enough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_rail_crash
But, let's just check on Wiki who had the worse accident history..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._and_disasters
# deaths
# 184 – Komagawa train disaster (Komagawa, Saitama, Japan, 1947)
# 181 – Ajikawaguchi train disaster (Osaka, Japan, 1940)
# 162 – Mikawashima train crash (Tokyo, Japan, 1962)
# 161 – Tsurumi rail accident (Japan, 1963)
# 107 – Amagasaki rail crash (Japan, 2005)
# 130 – Liziyida bridge destroyed by mud-flow, caused a train disaster. (Sichuan, China, July 9, 1981)
# 126 – Rongjiawan trains disaster, (Hunan, China, 1997)
Doesn't seem for me that taking a train in China is much a bigger risk rather than in Japan.. ok, let's be fair and say that China doesn't have had a high-speed network for a long time, but doesn't that stop India from having horrible accidents almost every year? I don't think speed is what counts but rather the security systems. A train crashing at 100km/h can just be as bad as one at 300km/h.
Today, taking a train in both China and Japan is very secure. India, on the other hand, I wouldn't even come close to a railroad..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...2%80%932019%29
Half of the accidents worldwide happing in India.. (and they have like what, half the track lenght of China..)
So if those right wing Japanese blog really is interested in safety, rather than just keeping spreading lies about China, they better should change the country.. but what can we expect from a country who is teaching today it's children that their troops were liberating Asia during WW2...