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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017

      Folks let's briefly examine the JR Group (excluding freight--for now, at least) #TrainTwitterpic.twitter.com/1frvNqivGm

      1 reply 8 retweets 17 likes
    2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      Pic caricatures situation of each company & lists: - Operating profit - % of profit from ridership - % of ridership from high-speed trains

      3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
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      First is JR East, which is doing splendidly with 15% profit. 68% of that is from transportation, and 32% of THAT is from HSR.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
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      JR Central has less revenue but double the profit (29.4%), overwhelmingly from the Tokaido Shinkansen (92% of its transportation revenue!)

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
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      JR West had been in second until the 2005 disaster, it is now a comfortable third: 11.2% profit, 64% from transport, 51% of which is HSR

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      So, the JR companies on Honshu (except freight) are doing well...the ones on the islands are having trouble.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017

      JR Hokkaido is in the worst shape--3.2% operating profit (negative net profit!), 52.9% from transportation, no HSR when stats were recorded

      7:41 AM - 28 Mar 2017
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        2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          JR Shikoku is in a similar bind--4.4% profit, no HSR...but it has a smaller network to maintain, and gets a better transport share (61.5%)

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Both JR Hokkaido and JR Shikoku will not be able to continue in their current state--they will either close down or get new backers...

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          ...either from local government or from their more successful JR neighbors--East for Hokkaido, West for Shikoku.

          1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
        5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          JR Kyushu is doing the best among these three--8.5% profit--but even they aren't getting blood from a stone...look at the transport share...

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          ...it's only 47.9%, less than half. JR Kyushu is managing to operate a railway in a rural setting with declining population...

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
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          ...because it is getting more than half of its revenue from related (non-transport) business. And what about its transport side?

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          For starters, they have HSR in Kyushu, connecting to the rest of Japan--this is over a third of their passenger business, too.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Furthermore, JR Kyushu has made an extraordinary effort to distinguish itself on the basis of luxurypic.twitter.com/9104gAbY2U

          1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes
        10. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          The upshot of which is that many trains in Kyushu are tourist attractions in their own right, so visitors make up a huge share of ridership

          2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
        11. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 28 Mar 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          All that--side businesses, luxury trains, and HSR connections to busier places--is what it takes for a rural rail company to stay solvent

          0 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
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