OSAKA (Kyodo) West Japan Railway Co. admitted Sunday that organizational problems, such as excessive streamlining, were behind a fatal train derailment that occurred in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, in April 2005.
The company’s view was conveyed at its first meeting with a group of families of those who died in the disaster, according to the attendants.
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