East Japan Railway Company
Headquarters in Shibuya ward, Tokyo | |
Native name | 東日本旅客鉄道株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Higashi-Nihon Ryokaku Tetsudō kabushiki gaisha lit. 'East Japan Passenger Railway Share Company' |
| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Rail transport |
| Predecessor | Japanese National Railways (JNR) |
| Founded | 1 April 1987, privatization of JNR |
| Headquarters | 2-2-2 Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo , Japan |
Area served | Kanto and Tōhoku regions Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures |
Key people | Tetsuro Tomita (chairman of the board) Masaki Ogata (vice chairman of the board) Yuji Fukasawa (president, Representative Director) |
| Products | Suica (a rechargeable contactless smart card) |
| Services | Passenger railways freight services bus transportation other related services |
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| Owner | JTSB investment trusts (8.21%) Mizuho Bank (4.07%) TMTBJ investment trusts (3.97%) MUFG Bank (2.75%) Repurchased shares (2.67%) (as of 30 September 2018) |
Number of employees | 73,017 (as of 31 March 2013) |
| Divisions | Railway operations Life-style business IT & Suica business |
| Subsidiaries | 83 companies, including Tokyo Monorail and J-TREC |
| Website | www |
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The East Japan Railway Company is a major passenger railway company in Japan and the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as JR Higashi-Nihon (JR東日本, Jeiāru Higashi-Nihon, lit. 'JR East Japan') in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, next to Shinjuku Station. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange (it formerly had secondary listings in the Nagoya and Osaka stock exchanges), is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and is one of three Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, the others being JR Central and JR West.