This might be pedantic, but there have been fatalities closely involving the Shinkansen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen#Safety_record https://en.wikip

This might be pedantic, but there have been fatalities closely involving the Shinkansen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen#Safety_record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen#Safety_record, though, no fatalities from derailments or other issues directly caused by the trains themselves.