Nippon Sharyo

Nippon Sharyo, Ltd.
日本車輌製造株式会社

Type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 7102 NAG: 7102
Industry	Railways
Founded	Japan, September 1896
Headquarters	Nagoya, Japan
Key people	Akira Nakagawa, President & CEO, Katsuyuki Ikushima, Chairman
Products	Rolling stock
Employees	1,751 (September 2010)
Website	www.n-sharyo.co.jp

Nippon Sharyo rolling stock factory in Toyokawa, Aichi

Nippon Sharyo built Odakyū 50000 series VSE EMU

Taiwan Shinkansen series 700T, made by a consortium including Nippon Sharyo

Caltrain bi-level car

Highliner II car

Nippon Sharyo, Ltd. (日本車輌製造株式会社, Nippon Sharyō Seizō Kabushiki-gaisha^?), (TYO: 7102), 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, JR Central became the majority shareholder (50.1%) of the financially struggling Nippon Sharyo making the firm a "consolidated subsidiary" of JR Central.^[1]

Notable projects

Japan

• Shinkansen (bullet train) trainsets
  • 0 Series
  • 100 Series
  • 200 Series
  • 300 Series
  • 500 Series
  • 700 Series^[1]
  • N700 Series
  • 700T Series
  • E2 Series

• Japan - Odakyu Electric Railway trainsets
  • Odakyu 50000 series VSE
• Linimo magnetic levitation train

Brazil

• Porto Alegre Metro EMUs

Canada

• Toronto Transit Commission work cars
  • RT22 Flat car 1973
  • RT13 Centre cab crane 1968
  • RT10 Garbage car 1967 - Tokyo Rose
• Metrolinx Air Rail Link DMUs (jointly with Sumitomo Corporation)

Philippines

• Manila Light Rail Transit System

Singapore

• Singapore MRT EMU
  • C751B^[2]

Taiwan

• Taiwan Railway Administration
  • EMU700 local/commuter train
  • DMU3100 express train
  • Tilting trains^[3]

USA

• Northern Indiana South Shore Line EMUs
• Maryland MARC Train single-level push-pull coaches (jointly with Sumitomo Corporation)
• Los Angeles Metro Rail LRVs (light rail vehicles)
  • P850
  • P2020
• Chicago Metra bi-level gallery cars^[4] and Highliner rail cars
• Virginia VRE bi-level gallery cars
• San Francisco Bay Area Caltrain bi-level gallery cars
• Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit DMUs (jointly with Sumitomo Corporation)^[4]
• Michigan bi-levels for the proposed SEMCOG Commuter Rail.

Venezuela

I.F.E EMUs Working on Caracas-Cua commuter line Railway System Ezequiel Zamora (Central)

Wartime involvement

Nippon Sharyo-built C56 31 preserved at Yasukuni War Museum in Tokyo

Nippon Sharyo, in 1936, built 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 veterans groups raised funds to return the locomotive from Burma 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.^[5]

According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:^[6]

"The notorious Burma-Siam railway, built by Commonwealth, Dutch and American prisoners of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma. During its construction, approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the railway. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians also died in the course of the project, chiefly forced labour brought from Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, or conscripted in Siam (Thailand) and Burma (Myanmar). Two labour forces, one based in Siam and the other in Burma worked from opposite ends of the line towards the centre."

References

External links

• Official website (English)

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