This article presents a list of motor vehicle deaths in Japan by year.
(Index=100) Per population, fatalities are 1/4 in 2008 of that of 1970, and per kilometer, one-sixth in 2007 of the 1970 rate.
[1] and for 2017, it has dropped to 3,694 deaths, of 2,020 involved a driver over 65 or 54.7% of the total, with sharply rising rates of deadly accidents with each decade of driver age after 65.
Total deaths have fallen further to 3,215 in 2019, with drivers over age 75 a concern.
[5][6][7][8] Notes: Death definition before and after 1980 are not exactly comparable (1-day vs 30-day) but have this additional margin of error.