Eight out of ten cars of the Toki 325 service (a 200 Series Shinkansen train) derailed on the Joetsu Shinkansen line between Nagaoka Station in Nagaoka and Urasa Station in Yamato; no injuries were reported among the 155 passengers.
But the scheme suffered a major setback after the Chūetsu earthquake in 2004 when landslips covered large parts of the route.
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