Kyushu Railway Company

The Kyushu Railway Company (Japanese: 九州旅客鉄道株式会社 Kyūshū Ryokaku Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha), officially abbreviated as JR Kyushu (Japanese: JR九州 JR Kyūshū), is the main subsidiary of the Japan Railways Group based on the island of Kyushu.
==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 Kyushu was formed from the previous JNR lines that ran in Kyushu. The company is owned by a public float as of 2016, having executed its initial public offering in October that year.
Yoji Furumiya is JR Kyushu's current president, having served in this role since 2022.
==Network==
JR Kyushu owns 2,342.6 km (1,455.6 mi) of rail lines, including two Shinkansen lines and a number of commuter lines. Their main base of operations is at Hakata Station, with their headquarters located near the station.
==Presidents==
Name 	Term start	Term end
Yoshitaka Ishii 	1987 	1997
Kōji Tanaka 	1997 	2002
Susumu Ishihara 	2002 	2009
Kōji Karaike 	2009 	2014
Toshihiko Aoyagi	2014 	2022
Yoji Furumiya 	2022 	Active
==Trivia==
*JR Kyushu's image song is titled Romantic Railroad, released in 1989 and performed by Hi-Fi Set. The lyrics were chosen as part of an internal competition of sorts. JR Kyushu published an official music video for the song on their YouTube channel in 2021.
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