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
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
East Japan Railway Co. said Tuesday that all lines of its Tohoku Shinkansen will resume services on April 14 after a powerful earthquake hit northeastern Japan and derailed one of its bullet trains nearly three weeks ago. But the lines will operate on temporary timetables until after the Golden Week holidays in early May, JR
