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28.03.26 - 07:06
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JR East Fully Opens Takanawa Gateway City (Nippon)
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Tokyo, March 28 (Jiji Press)--East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, on Saturday fully opened Takanawa Gateway City, a large-scale redevelopment district in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Three new facilities, including a cultural facility and luxury rental housing, were opened in the district. The redevelopment project aims to accelerate urban growth by leveraging the district's direct connection to......
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23.03.26 - 09:42
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JR East′s Freight-Only Shinkansen Train Goes into Service (Nippon)
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Tokyo, March 23 (Jiji Press)--East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, started operating a freight-only Shinkansen bullet train Monday, transporting goods from Morioka, the capital of Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, to Tokyo. The seven-car train, converted from an E3 series passenger train that had been used for the Yamagata Shinkansen line, is operated on weekdays and convey up to about 1......
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22.03.26 - 09:18
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Japan Trains Foreign Workers for Railway Maintenance (Nippon)
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Shirakawa, Fukushima Pref., March 22 (Jiji Press)--East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, has taken the lead in launching a training program aimed at nurturing about 100 foreign workers annually under Japan's specified skilled worker program amid severe labor shortages in railway maintenance. The trained workers are expected to find jobs at railway companies across the country, attracting atte......
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11.03.26 - 14:06
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JR East to Raise Fares for 1st Time since Privatization (Nippon)
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Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)--East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, will increase fares by an average 7.1 pct on Saturday, marking the first full-scale fare revision since the privatization of Japan National Railways in 1987, excluding changes due to consumption tax hikes. The starting fare for tickets on the Yamanote Line in Tokyo and other lines will rise by 10 yen to 160 yen. The price hike......
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11.03.26 - 05:06
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JR East to Monitor Yamanote Line Pantographs with AI (Nippon)
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Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)--East Japan Railway Co. has said it will launch a trial in April of a system that uses artificial intelligence to monitor pantographs on trains running on its busy Yamanote Line in Tokyo to detect defects in train cars at an early stage. The railway operator, known as JR East, also plans to use drones to inspect overhead wires and other infrastructure, aiming to ......
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30.01.26 - 08:18
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JR Joban Line Suspended Due to Power Failure at Tokyo′s Ueno (Nippon)
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Tokyo, Jan. 30 (Jiji Press)--Train services on East Japan Railway Co.'s Joban Line were partially suspended for about seven hours Friday after an overhead power line snapped at Tokyo's Ueno Station. The power outage occurred around 7 a.m. near Ueno Station in Taito Ward, halting local and rapid services on some sections in both directions, according to the company, known as JR East. Four......
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23.01.26 - 08:36
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S. Korean Remembered 25 Yrs after Death in Tokyo Tragedy (Nippon)
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Tokyo, Jan. 23 (Jiji Press)--A memorial service was held Friday morning at a Tokyo railway station to mark nearly 25 years since the death of a South Korean student who was hit by a train while trying to save a Japanese man. Lee Soo-hyun, then 26, was killed while trying to rescue the man who fell onto the tracks under the influence at Shin-Okubo Station of East Japan Railway Co., or JR Eas......
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16.01.26 - 06:36
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Tokyo′s Yamanote Line Temporarily Halted on Power Outage (Nippon)
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Tokyo, Jan. 16 (Jiji Press)--East Japan Railway Co.'s busy Yamanote Line in Tokyo was temporarily halted on all sections Friday because of a predawn power outage that occurred due to an apparent problem at an electrical facility. Both the clockwise and counterclockwise services of the loop line were suspended from the day's first trains due to the outage, which happened between Shinbashi an......
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