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3 unusual facts about Japanese National Railways


Fumiya Fujii

After leaving his job in Japanese National Railways, he started his music career in the 1980s as the vocalist of the immensely popular group The Checkers and started on his solo project after they split up.

Private railway

Although Japan Railways Group companies are private entities, they are not considered private railways because of their unique status as the successors of the Japanese National Railways (JNR).

Yutaka Banno

Upon graduation, he joined Japanese National Railways in 1985 and JR Central in 1987 when Japanese National Railways was privatized.


Civil service of Japan

In the post-war period, this figure has been even higher, but the privatization of a large number of public corporations since the 1980s, among them NTT and Japanese National Railways, already reduced the number.

Hideo Shima

But, after the establishment of Japanese National Railways in 1949, a train fire at a station in Yokohama that killed more than 100 people in 1951 led him to resign in the Japanese tradition of taking responsibility.

Nakata Station

Nakata Station was opened on November 11, 1956 as a Japanese National Railways station in the former village of Morita, Nishitsugaru District.

Odakyū Odawara Line

A bypass track was laid in 1955 to Matsuda Station on the Gotemba Line of the then-Japanese National Railways, and limited express service through to the line started.


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