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Japan Railways Group

Index Japan Railways Group

The Japan Railways Group, more commonly known as, consists of seven for-profit companies that took over most of the assets and operations of the government-owned Japanese National Railways on April 1, 1987. [1]

59 relations: Akita Shinkansen, All Japan Construction, Transport and General Workers' Union, Asset, Business, Cargo, Central Japan Railway Company, Chūgoku region, Diesel engine, East Japan Railway Company, Energy conversion efficiency, Fraud, Hokkaido, Hokkaido Railway Company, Hokkaido Shinkansen, Hokuriku region, Hokuriku Shinkansen, Holding company, Honshu, Independent Administrative Institution, Japan Confederation of Railway Workers' Unions, Japan Freight Railway Company, Japan Rail Pass, Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency, Japan Railways locomotive numbering and classification, Japanese National Railway Settlement Corporation, Japanese National Railways, Jōetsu Shinkansen, Kansai region, Kantō region, Kōshin'etsu region, Kyushu, Kyushu Railway Company, Kyushu Shinkansen, Liability (financial accounting), List of railway companies in Japan, MARS (ticket reservation system), National Railway Chiba Motive Power Union, National Railway Workers' Union, Operations management, Private sector, Productivity, Rail transport in Japan, Railway Technical Research Institute, Rolling stock, San'yō Shinkansen, Seishun 18 Ticket, Shikoku, Shikoku Railway Company, Shinkansen, Shirasagi (train), ..., SoftBank Telecom, Tōhoku region, Tōhoku Shinkansen, Tōkai region, Tōkaidō Shinkansen, Units of transportation measurement, Voluntary sector, West Japan Railway Company, Yamagata Shinkansen. Expand index (9 more) »

Akita Shinkansen

The is a Mini-shinkansen high-speed rail line in Japan.

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All Japan Construction, Transport and General Workers' Union

The is a Japanese trade union group, which is usually referred to as in Japanese.

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Asset

In financial accounting, an asset is an economic resource.

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Business

Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (goods and services).

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Cargo

In economics, cargo or freight are goods or produce being conveyed – generally for commercial gain – by water, air or land.

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Central Japan Railway Company

The is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan.

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Chūgoku region

The, also known as the, is the westernmost region of Honshū, the largest island of Japan.

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition or CI engine), named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel which is injected into the combustion chamber is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression (adiabatic compression).

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East Japan Railway Company

is a major passenger railway company in Japan and one of the seven Japan Railways Group companies.

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Energy conversion efficiency

Energy conversion efficiency (η) is the ratio between the useful output of an energy conversion machine and the input, in energy terms.

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Fraud

In law, fraud is deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

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Hokkaido

(), formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is the second largest island of Japan, and the largest and northernmost prefecture.

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Hokkaido Railway Company

The is one of the constituent companies of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group), and is often referred to using its official abbreviation of.

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Hokkaido Shinkansen

The is a Japanese high-speed shinkansen rail line that links up with the Tōhoku Shinkansen in northern Aomori Prefecture in Honshu and continues on into the interior of Hokkaido through the undersea Seikan Tunnel.

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Hokuriku region

The was located in the northwestern part of Honshu, the main island of Japan.

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Hokuriku Shinkansen

The is a high-speed shinkansen railway line jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and West Japan Railway Company (JR West), connecting Tokyo with in the Hokuriku region of Japan.

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Holding company

A holding company is a company that owns other companies' outstanding stock.

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Honshu

Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan, located south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits.

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Independent Administrative Institution

An Incorporated Administrative Agency, or in lay terms Independent Administrative Corporation or Independent Administrative Institution (独立行政法人, Dokuritsu gyōsei hōjin or Dokugyo in abbreviation), is a type of legal body for organizations of the Japanese government regulated by the Basic Law on Reforming Government Ministries under the Act on General Rules for incorporated Administrative Agencies (Law No. 103 of 1999, modified in 2014).

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Japan Confederation of Railway Workers' Unions

The is a Japanese trade union, which is usually referred to as in Japanese.

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Japan Freight Railway Company

, or, is one of the constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group).

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Japan Rail Pass

The, also called the JR Pass, is a rail pass for overseas visitors sold by the Japan Railways Group, and is valid for travel on all major forms of transportation provided by the JR Group in Japan, with a few exceptions.

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Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency

The, JRTT, is an Independent Administrative Institution created by an Act of the National Diet, effective October 1, 2003.

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Japan Railways locomotive numbering and classification

This page explains the numbering and classification schemes for locomotives employed by the Japanese Government Railways, the Japanese National Railways and the Japan Railways Group.

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Japanese National Railway Settlement Corporation

The, or JNRSC, was a temporary holding company created to distribute the assets of the former Japanese National Railways (JNR) after its privatization in the mid-1980s.

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Japanese National Railways

, abbreviated or "JNR", was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987.

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Jōetsu Shinkansen

The is a high-speed shinkansen railway line connecting Tokyo and Niigata, Japan, via the Tōhoku Shinkansen, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

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Kansai region

The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū.

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Kantō region

The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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Kōshin'etsu region

is a subregion of the Chūbu region in Japan consisting of Yamanashi, Nagano, and Niigata prefectures.

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Kyushu

is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands.

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Kyushu Railway Company

The, also referred to as, is one of the constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group).

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Kyushu Shinkansen

The is a Japanese high-speed railway line between the cities of Fukuoka and Kagoshima in Kyushu, running parallel to the existing Kagoshima Main Line and operated by JR Kyushu.

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Liability (financial accounting)

In financial accounting, a liability is defined as the future sacrifices of economic benefits that the entity is obliged to make to other entities as a result of past transactions or other past events, the settlement of which may result in the transfer or use of assets, provision of services or other yielding of economic benefits in the future.

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List of railway companies in Japan

List of railway companies in Japan lists Japanese railway operators.

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MARS (ticket reservation system)

, which stands for Multi Access seat Reservation System, is a train ticket reservation system used by the railway companies of former Japanese National Railways, currently Japan Railways Group (JR Group) and travel agencies in Japan.

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National Railway Chiba Motive Power Union

is a Japanese trade union, which is usually referred to as.

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National Railway Workers' Union

The is a Japanese trade union, which is usually referred to as in Japanese.

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Operations management

Operations management is an area of management concerned with designing and controlling the process of production and redesigning business operations in the production of goods or services.

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Private sector

The private sector is the part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is run by private individuals or groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, and is not controlled by the State.

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Productivity

Productivity describes various measures of the efficiency of production.

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Rail transport in Japan

Rail transport in Japan is a major means of passenger transport, especially for mass and high-speed travel between major cities and for commuter transport in metropolitan areas.

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Railway Technical Research Institute

, or, is the technical research company under the Japan Railways group of companies.

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Rolling stock

The term rolling stock in rail transport industry originally referred to any vehicles that move on a railway.

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San'yō Shinkansen

The is a line of the Japanese Shinkansen high-speed rail network, connecting Shin-Osaka in Osaka with Hakata Station in Fukuoka, the two largest cities in western Japan.

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Seishun 18 Ticket

The is a special discount ticket issued in Japan which allows holders one-day unlimited rides on the local trains of Japan Railways Group during limited periods of year.

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Shikoku

is the smallest (long and between wide) and least populous (3.8 million) of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshu and east of the island of Kyushu.

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Shikoku Railway Company

, commonly known as, is one of the constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group).

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Shinkansen

The, colloquially known in English as the bullet train, is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan.

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Shirasagi (train)

The is a limited express train service in Japan operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) since 1964.

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SoftBank Telecom

SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp. Japanese: (ソフトバンクテレコム株式会社), previously as, was a Japanese telephone company of the SoftBank group.

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Tōhoku region

The, Northeast region, or Northeast Japan consists of the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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Tōhoku Shinkansen

The is a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen rail line, connecting Tokyo with Aomori in Aomori Prefecture in a route length of 674 km (419 miles), making it Japan's longest Shinkansen line.

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Tōkai region

The is a subregion of the Chūbu region and Kansai region in Japan that runs along the Pacific Ocean.

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Tōkaidō Shinkansen

The is a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen line, opened in 1964 between Tokyo and Shin-Ōsaka.

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Units of transportation measurement

The units of transportation measurement describes the unit of measurement used to measure the quantity and traffic of transportation used in transportation statistics, planning, and their related fields.

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Voluntary sector

The voluntary sector or community sector (also non-profit sector or not-for-profit sector) is the duty of social activity undertaken by organizations that are not-for-profit and non-governmental.

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West Japan Railway Company

, also referred to as, is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu.

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Yamagata Shinkansen

The is a Mini-shinkansen route in Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Railways_Group

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