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January 29, 2013
To Whom It May Concern:
Name of Company: Central Japan Railway Company
Name of Representative: Yoshiomi Yamada,President and Representative Director(Code: 9022, First Sections of the TSE, OSE and NSE)
Contact Person: Ryo Ejiri,
General Manager of the Public Relations Department(Telephone No.: +81-52-564-2549)
Notice of Application for Amendment to the Allowance Reserve Plan for the Large-Scale Renovationof Shinkansen Infrastructure
While the importance of infrastructure has come to be of greater concern to the people of Japandue to the occurrence of the Great East Japan Earthquake, etc., the civil engineering structures of theTokaido Shinkansen, which is in its 49th year of operation, remain sound even today because ofcontinuous careful inspections and repairs in accordance with maintenance standards.
While Central Japan Railway Company (the “Company”) will continue inspections and repairsof deterioration, it will be necessary to replace facilities in the future due to age-related deterioration.
Therefore, in order to carry out large-scale renovation starting from FY2018, the Company has been
accumulating allowance reserves since 2002 following approval by the Minister of Land,Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of the allowance reserve plan for the large-scale renovation ofShinkansen infrastructure (the “Allowance Reserve Plan”) under the Nationwide Shinkansen
Railway Development Act (the “Act”).
With respect to the method for the large-scale renovation, the Company has been continuously
working on research and development centered at the Company’s research facility, which wasestablished in 2002, and the Company has developed a method by which the Company can carry out
measures to extend the life of structures by inhibiting the very occurrence of age-related deteriorationof civil engineering structures (the “Measures to Inhibit Age-related Deterioration”) first, and thenconduct overall renovation, such as replacement of floorbeams and stringers (the “OverallRenovation”). This new method makes it possible to reduce substantially interference to train
operations at the time of construction and also to decrease construction costs drastically.
With respect to the civil engineering structures of the Tokaido Shinkansen, the Company
determined that an earlier start to the large-scale renovation using the new method would beappropriate in order to preserve and improve the soundness of structures by inhibiting the very
occurrence of deterioration, and decided to conduct such renovation 5 years ahead of schedule,-1-starting from FY2013. Therefore, the Company applied to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure,
Transport and Tourism for an amendment to the Allowance Reserve Plan under Article 16, Paragraph(1) of the Act on January 29, 2013, following a resolution to do so, which was made at the meetingof the Board of Directors on January 29, 2013.
1.

Details of the application for amendment
Applied-for Amendment
Large-scalerenovation

Allowance

2.

(Reference) Existing Plan

PeriodFrom April 2013 to March From April 2018 to March2023 (10-year period)
2028 (10-year period)

Total cost

730.8 billion yen

Reserve period

From October 1, 2002 to From October 1, 2002 to
March 31, 2013 (10.5-year September 30, 2017 (15-yearperiod)period)

Total reserve

350 billion yen

1,097.1 billion yen

500 billion yen

Summary of the large-scale renovation (Exhibit)(1) Content of construction
Target Facilities
Steel bridges
Bridges

Outline of Construction
Reinforcement of connection with floorbeams and stringers,
replacement/reinforcement of shoes and replacement offloorbeams and stringers

Concrete viaducts
Cladding of cantilevers and columns with steel plates
and bridges
Tunnels

Grout injection behind lining, reinforcement with rock bolts
and steel plates(2) Method of construction
The Measures to Inhibit Age-related Deterioration will be carried out first, and thenthe Overall Renovation will be implemented. The specific time of commencement of theOverall Renovation will be separately determined taking into consideration the state of thestructures after the implementation of the Measures to Inhibit Age-related Deterioration.
3.

Effect on profit and loss due to reserve/appropriation of allowances
If the application for the amendment is approved, for every fiscal year from FY2013 toFY2022 there will be, compared to FY2012, a decrease of 68.3 billion yen in operating expenses.
The breakdown of the amount is: a decrease of 33.3 billion yen due to the discontinuance of thereserve of allowances from FY2013 and a decrease of 35.0 billion yen due to the appropriation ofreserves spread evenly over 10 years from FY2013.
End of Document-2-Content of Large-Scale Renovation Work (Steel Bridges)［Exhibit］(i) Reinforcement ofconnection withfloorbeam and stringer(i)Reinforcementof connection
with floorbeam
and stringer(i) Replacement/Reinforcementof shoe(ii) Replacementof stringer

支点部(ii) Replacementof floorbeam(ii) Replacement
off flfloorbeamb(ii) Replacementof stringer

Existingg sleepers
pTypes ofmeasures(i) Measures to Inhibit Agerelated Deterioration(ii) Overall Renovation

Contentof work

・Reinforcement of connection
with floorbeams and stringers
・Replacement/Reinforcement ofshoes
・Addition of sleepers

・Replacement offloorbeams and stringers(i) Addition of sleepers※ The specific time of commencement of the Overall
Renovation will be separately determined taking into
consideration the state of the structures after theimplementation of the Measures to Inhibit Age‐related Deterioration.

Content of Large-Scale Renovation Work (Concrete Viaducts and Bridges) ［Exhibit]

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(i) Cladding withsteel plates(i) Cladding with steel plate(i) Protective surface coating(i) Addition of piles and undergroundbeams

Column(i) Cladding withsteel plates

Central slab(i) Protective surface coating (ii) Cladding with steel plates

Types ofmeasures

Content ofwork

Cantilever

Beam (Beam ofconcrete rigid
frame viaduct)

Cantilever(i) Measures to Inhibit Agerelated Deterioration(ii) Overall Renovation

Cantilever

・Cladding with steel plates－Column・Cladding with steel plates－Central slab

・Protective surface coating

・Cladding with steel
platesBeam (Beam ofconcrete rigidframe viaduct)・Protective surface coating
・Addition ofpiles/underground beams－Beam (Beam ofconcrete bridge)

・Protective surface coating

・Cladding with steelplates

Beam (Beam ofconcrete bridge)
Central slab(i) Protective surface coating(ii) Cladding with steel plates(i) Protective surface coating(ii) Cladding with steel plates※ The specific time of commencementof the Overall Renovation will beseparately determined taking into
consideration the state of the structures
after the implementation of theMeasures to Inhibit Age‐related
Deterioration.

Content of Large-Scale Renovation Work (Tunnels)(ｉ) Measures toInhibit Age-related
Deterioration［Exhibit］

GroundRock bolts(ii) Overall Renovation

GapLining

Grout injection behind lining
Injection
into crack

Reinforcementwith rock bolts
andd steelt l plates
l t(where lining isthin)

Steelplates

Reinforcement withrock bolts and steelplates(where there is historyof deterioration (cracks,etc.))※ The specific time of commencement of theOverallll Renovation willll beb separatelyl ddetermineddtaking into consideration the state of the structures
after the implementation of the Measures to Inhibit
Age‐related Deterioration.