>>937458>JNR>Ever profitablelaughingaccountants.gif Basically JNR (when it was still government owned) back in the 50s~70s began its mad expansion of building the Shinkansen network, constantly building new rolling stocks, electrification of main lines, move away from steam locomotives, and running many unprofitable rural lines. As a result of the runaway debt that repaying it finally rolled into the National budget in the late 90s. The following might provide a bit more insight into what happened then [lolnospoiler] Fun Fact: The person who wrote it only died recently and he was 95 [/lolnospoiler]
http://www.jrtr.net/jrtr22/pdf/F23_Kakumoto.pdfAfter the whole privatization went down the general trend of profitability of the JR Group seems to be like this
East: Profitable due to LOL Tokyo Metro Area
Central: Profitable due to LOL Tokaido Shinkansen
West: Kind of profitable due to Keihanshin area, but they also have to serve quite a large bit of rural areas aka San'in region
Kyushu: Somewhat profitable
Shikoku: Loses money, but it is basically the only way into Shikoku using rail
Hokkaido: Loses a lot of money due to area covered and declining ridership
>Anyway just raise the fares or cut services.Well, JR Hokkaido is cutting services and closing some of the stations but I doubt it will do much
>>937470JR Hokkaido, JR Shikoku, JR Kyushu and JR Freight are still technically under the Japanese governement but operated under some complicated-ass scheme that baka gaijins like us won't get
