East Japan Railway Company

East Japan Railway Company
Native name
東日本旅客鉄道株式会社
Higashi-Nihon Ryokaku Tetsudō kabushiki gaisha
lit. 'East Japan Passenger Railway Share Company'
Company typePublic
IndustryRail transport
PredecessorJapanese National Railways (JNR)
Founded1 April 1987; 37 years ago (1987-04-01), 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)[1]
ProductsSuica (a rechargeable contactless smart card)
ServicesPassenger railways
freight services
bus transportatio
other related services[2]
Revenue
  • Increase ¥2,405,538 million(FY 2023)[3]
  • Increase ¥1,978,967 million(FY 2022)[4]
  • Increase ¥2,756,165 million(FY 2015)
  • Decrease ¥140,629 million(FY 2023)[3]
  • Decrease ¥153,938 million(FY 2022)[4]
  • Increase ¥487,821 million(FY 2016)[4]
  • Increase ¥427,522 million(FY 2015)
  • Increase ¥245,310 million(FY 2016)[4]
  • Decrease ¥180,398 million(FY 2015)
Total assets
  • Increase ¥7,789,762 million(FY 2016)[4]
  • Increase ¥7,605,690 million(FY 2015)
Total equity
  • Increase ¥2,442,129 million(FY 2016)[4]
  • Increase ¥2,285,658 million(FY 2015)
OwnerJTSB 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)[1]
DivisionsRailway operations[5]
Life-style business[5]
IT & Suica business[5]
Subsidiaries83 companies,[6][7]
including Tokyo Monorail and J-TREC
Websitewww.jreast.co.jp
Footnotes / references
[8][9]

The East Japan Railway Company[10] 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[11] or JR East in English, and as JR Higashi-Nihon (JR東日本, Jeiāru Higashi-Nihon) in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, next to Shinjuku Station.[2] 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.

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  3. ^ a b East Japan Railway Company. "Financial Report 2023" (PDF). p. 3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 August 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e f East Japan Railway Company. "Financial Highlights - East Japan Railway Company and Subsidiaries" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 January 2023. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  5. ^ a b c "Organization". East Japan Railway Company. Archived from the original on 27 October 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  6. ^ East Japan Railway Company. グループ会社一覧 (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 27 October 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  7. ^ 会社要覧2008 (PDF) (in Japanese). East Japan Railway Company. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 April 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  8. ^ "Consolidated Results of Fiscal 2011 (Year Ended 31 March 2011)" (PDF). East Japan Railway Company. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  9. ^ "JR East 2012 Annual Report" (PDF). East Japan Railway Company. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  10. ^ 東日本旅客鉄道株式会社, Higashi-Nihon Ryokaku Tetsudō kabushiki gaisha
  11. ^ "JR-EAST – East Japan Railway Company". East Japan Railway Company. Archived from the original on 3 October 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2016.