Nippon Sharyo's headquarters, Nagoya, Japan.
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NIPPON SHARYO
Nippon Sharyo, Ltd. (日本車輌製造株式会社, Nippon Sharyō Seizō kabushiki gaisha, literally "Japan Rolling Stock Manufacture Company" and formerly known outside Japan as Nippon Sharyo Seizo Kaisha, Ltd.), formed in 1896, is a major rolling stock manufacturer based in Nagoya, Japan. In 1996, it abbreviated its name to "日本車両" Nippon Sharyō. Its shortest abbreviation is Nissha "日車". It was a listed company on Nikkei 225 until 2004. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Nagoya Stock Exchange as ticker 7102. In 2008, Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) became the majority shareholder (50.1%) of the financially struggling Nippon Sharyo making the firm a "consolidated subsidiary" of JR Central. In July 2012 Nippon Sharyo USA started production in their new facility in Rochelle, Illinois. The facility closed at the end of October 2018 due to a lack of orders.
The company is known for having manufactured many different series of Shinkansen ("bullet train") trainsets in Japan.
Caltrain gallery car. (Yuko Honda, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)
Highliner II car. (Zol87, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)
Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) rolling stock, Nippon Sharyo DMU. (Sonoma-rich at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)
Notable projects in North America
United States
- Next Generation Bi-Level Passenger Rail Car
- Los Angeles County Metro Rail P865 and P2020
- Northern Indiana South Shore Line EMUs
- Maryland MARC Train single-level push-pull coaches (jointly with Sumitomo Corporation)
- Bi-level gallery cars for Chicago Metra, Virginia VRE, and San Francisco Bay Area Caltrain
- Highliner bi-level EMUs for Metra and South Shore Line
- Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit Nippon Sharyo DMU (jointly with Sumitomo Corporation)
Canada
- Toronto Transit Commission work cars
- RT10 Garbage car 1967 – Tokyo Rose retired in 2000 and scrapped
- RT12 Electric locomotive 1968 (design similar to JNR Class DE locomotive), retired 2009 and scrapped
- RT13 Centre cab crane 1968 – with car and crane cabs
- RT22 Flat car 1973 – formerly wash car RT-17 and rebuilt 1996
- RT54 flat car 1973
- Union Pearson Express Diesel Multiple Units
- Nippon Sharyo DMU (jointly with Sumitomo Corporation) 2014
Nippon Sharyo-built C56 31 preserved at Yasukuni War Museum in Tokyo.
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Wartime involvement
Nippon Sharyo, in 1936, built the JNR Class C56 steam locomotive number C56 31, which was used in 1943 to open the infamous Thai-Burma Railway, as stylized in the movie The Bridge Over the River Kwai, built by over 100,000 Allied POW and other slave labourers. This restored steam engine now sits in the foyer of the Yasukuni War Museum in Tokyo. Japanese veteran groups raised funds to return the locomotive from Thailand to Japan in 1979.
During World War II, Nippon Sharyo, like many major Japanese companies, drew upon prisoner of war labour to maintain war production. The POW camp at Narumi provided Allied POW forced labour for Nippon Sharyo.
Overview
Native name: 日本車輌製造株式会社
Romanized name: Nippon Sharyō Seizō kabushiki gaisha
Formerly: Nippon Sharyo Seizo Kaisha, Ltd.
Company type: Public KK
Traded as: TYO: 7102; NAG: 7102
Industry: Railways
Founded: September 1896 Japan
Headquarters: Nagoya, Japan
Key people: Tsutomu Morimura (President & CEO), Mikio Tsuge (Senior Managing Director of Nippon Sharyo, Ltd and Chairman of Nippon Sharyo USA, Inc.)
Products: Rolling stock
Revenue: 101,094,000,000 yen (2017)
Operating income: −5,104,000,000 yen (2017)
Net income: −5,114,000,000 yen (2017)
Total assets: 129,194,000,000 yen (2017)
Number of employees: 1,850 (September 2018)
Parent: JR Central (50.1%)
Website www.n-sharyo.co.jp/index_e.html
