Central Japan Railway Company

The Central Japan Railway Company (Japanese: 東海旅客鉄道株式会社 Tōkai Ryokaku Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha), officially abbreviated as JR Central (Japanese: JR東海 JR Tōkai), is the main subsidiary of the Japan Railways Group based in central Japan.
==History==
:Main article: Japan Railways Group
By the 1980s, the Japanese National Railways had become practically insolvent due to the decline of rail transport and fare increases failing to compensate for high labor costs. The Japanese National Railways was privatized and split into seven different companies on 1 April 1987, with the Japanese National Railway Settlement Corporation later formed to distribute the funds among the companies. JR Central was formed from the previous JNR lines that ran around the Chūbu and Tōkai regions, with its Japanese name taken from the latter region in which the company operates.
Shunsuke Niwa is JR Hokkaido's current president, having served in this role since 2023.
==Network==
JR Central owns 1,982 km (1,232 mi) of rail lines, including one Shinkansen line and a number of commuter lines. Their main base of operations is at Nagoya Station, with their headquarters located above the station in the JR Central Towers.
The company is in the process of constructing the Chūō Shinkansen, a high-speed maglev line slated to open around 2027.
==Presidents==
Name 	Term start	Term end
Hiroshi Suda 	1987 	1995
Masayuki Matsumoto	2004 	2010
Yoshiomi Yamada 	2010 	2014
Kōei Tsuge 	2014 	2018
Shin Kaneko 	2018 	2023
Shunsuke Niwa 	2023 	Active
==Trivia==
*JR Central's image song is titled the Tōkai Passenger Railway Company Song, released in 2007 and performed by Nikikai. Prior to this in 1989, the company had an unofficial image song titled Kimi wo Nosete (lit. "carrying you") that was used in many commercials, performed by Mariko Takahashi; the lyrics for that song were written internally. It is now described as a "beloved" song by the company.
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