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There have been deaths resulting from Shinkansen accidents and there have been many more derailments than two. Five workers died in Shizuoka in 1964 from getting hit by a train. A child died in 1983 from getting hit by a train. Two workers died in Iwate in 1985 from getting hit by a train. A teenager died at Mishima Station in 1995 after getting stuck in the door of a departing train.

Since 2000, derailments have happened in 2004, 2008, 2013, 2016, 2017, and 2022.

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