Former JR Central boss Yoshiyuki Kasai, a leader of rail privatization, dies at 81

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Yoshiyuki Kasai in 2014. | KYODO

Nagoya – Yoshiyuki Kasai, the honorary chairman of Central Japan Railway Co. who played a key role in privatizing Japan National Railways in the late 1980s, has died of interstitial pneumonia, the train operator said Friday. He was 81. Kasai, who died Wednesday, was one of the three key figures along with the former presidents

JR train reservations for Golden Week up over 60%

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Passengers get on a Tohoku Shinkansen train at Tokyo Station on April 29 last year as the Golden Week holiday period started. | KYODO

The number of seats on shinkansen superexpress and other trains of the Japan Railways Group booked for this year’s Golden Week holiday period stood at 1.34 million as of Wednesday, up 66% from a year before, the six JR passenger service firms said Thursday. The surge in seat reservations during the period between April 28

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