Japan Freight Railway Company

The Japan Freight Railway Company (Japanese: 日本貨物鉄道株式会社 Nippon Kamotsu Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha), officially abbreviated as JR Freight (Japanese: JR貨物 JR Kamotsu), is the freight-carrying subsidiary of the Japan Railways Group.
==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 Freight was formed as a successor to JNR's past freight operations. Unlike some of JR's other constituent companies, JR Freight remains under ownership of the state-affiliated Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency.
Shin Inukai is JR Freight's current president, having served in this role since 2022.
==Network==
JR Freight operates on 7829.1 km (4864.8 mi) of rail lines; the vast majority of this track is owned by the six passenger-carrying subsidiaries of the JR Group, with only about 35.3 km (21.9 mi) owned by JR Freight.
==Presidents==
Name 	Term start	Term end
Masashi Hashimoto	1987 	1993
Yasushi Tanahashi	1993 	1997
Yoshio Kaneda 	1997 	1999
Naohiko Itō 	1999 	2007
Masaaki Kobayashi	2007 	2012
Shuji Tamura 	2012 	2018
Koichi Shingai 	2016 	2022
Shin Inukai 	2022 	Active
==Trivia==
*JR Freight's image song is titled Four Seasons. The song was released in 2006 and sung by Koji Yamamoto. JR Freight has since released a number of music videos of the song, featuring their employees performing the song.
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