The Japanese National Railways (日本国有鉄道, Nihon Kokuyū Tetsudō or Nippon Kokuyū Tetsudō) abbreviated JNR or Kokutetsu (国鉄), was the business entity that...

romanized: Tetsudō-shō, Japanese pronunciation: [te̞t͡sɨᵝdo̞ːɕo̞ː]) until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Railways Group....

reform on the Japanese Wikipedia) of the government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. It consists of six passenger railway companies...

Japanese Railways may refer to: Japanese Government Railways Japanese National Railways Japan Railways Group Japanese railway signals Nippon Railway Rail...

Shikoku The Japan Railways Group, more commonly known as JR Group, is a group of successors of the government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR). The...

former Japanese National Railways (JNR) after its privatization in the mid-1980s. On October 22, 1998, the JNRSC was disbanded and placed under the Japan Railway...

Station. The Japan Railways Group was founded on 1 April 1987, when Japanese National Railways (JNR) was privatized. Japanese National Railways was divided...

The West Japan Railway Company, also referred to as JR West (JR西日本, Jeiāru Nishi-Nihon), is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates...

The East Japan Railway Company is a major passenger railway company in Japan, the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name...

half-private. The Japan Railways Group consists of the seven companies that were formed after the privatization of the Japanese National Railways. Passenger...

the Japanese Government Railways, the Japanese National Railways and the Japan Railways Group. Prior to the nationalization of Japanese railways in 1906...

Russo-Japanese war; Stage 2, from nationalization in 1906-07 to the end of World War II; Stage 3, from the postwar creation of Japanese National Railways to...

and Telephone Public Corporation, Japanese National Railways, and Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation (now Japan Tobacco). However, Nippon Telegraph...

Japanese Central Railway School (中央鉄道学園, Chūō Tetsudō Gakuen) was a Japanese National Railways educational institution in Kokubunji, Tokyo. The school...

network. It is owned by the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency and operated by five Japan Railways Group companies. Starting with...

it has been operated by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), prior to that by Japanese National Railways (JNR). There are three types of services...

performs administrative functions related to the liquidation of the Japanese National Railways, such as management of JNR employee pensions. JRTT is currently...

It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai (Japanese: JR東海). Tōkai is a reference to the geographical region in which...

headquarters are in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka. When Japanese National Railways was divided in 1987, Kyushu Railway Company inherited its assets and operations...

private railways because of their unique status as the primary successors of the Japanese National Railways (JNR). Voluntary sector railways (semi-public)...

type of 2-8-2 steam locomotive built by the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the Japanese National Railways (JNR), and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling...

The Japanese Federation of National Railway Workers' Unions (Japanese: 新国鉄労働組合連合, Shinkokuro) was a trade union representing workers on the Japanese National...

type of 2-8-2 steam locomotive built by the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the Japanese National Railways (JNR) and various manufacturers from 1923...

type of 2-6-2T steam locomotive built by the Japanese Government Railways and the Japanese National Railways from 1932 to 1947. A total of 282 Class C12...

officials that had built up Japan's emerging railroad industry. Hideo Shima joined the Ministry of Railways (Japanese Government Railways) in 1925, where, as...

Kadokawa Pictures Japanese National Railways 日本国有鉄道 - Reorganized into Japan Railways Group Japan Post 日本郵政公社 - Reorganized into Japan Post Group Koei and...

Hokkaido Railway Company (北海道旅客鉄道株式会社, Hokkaidō Ryokaku Tetsudō kabushiki gaisha) is one of the constituent companies of the Japan Railways Group (JR...

of Japanese maglev development since the 1970s, a government-funded project initiated by Japan Airlines and the former Japanese National Railways (JNR)...

electrification of the PNR commuter line. Two experts from the Japanese National Railways were sent to conduct the study. Services north of Manila started...

constructed by the government. The Japanese National Railways was formed by the nationalization of 17 private railways in 1907. It actively promoted uniformity...