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During World War II, Nippon Sharyo, like many major Japanese companies, drew upon [[prisoner of war]] labor to maintain war production. The POW camp at Narumi provided Allied POW forced labor for Nippon Sharyo.<ref>[http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/osaka/narumi/narumi_11B_main.html Narumi POW Camp] Retrieved 27 June 2010.</ref> |
During World War II, Nippon Sharyo, like many major Japanese companies, drew upon [[prisoner of war]] labor to maintain war production. The POW camp at Narumi provided Allied POW forced labor for Nippon Sharyo.<ref>[http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/osaka/narumi/narumi_11B_main.html Narumi POW Camp] Retrieved 27 June 2010.</ref> |
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"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." |
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Revision as of 14:56, 3 December 2011
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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Railways |
| Founded | Japan, September 1896 |
| Headquarters | Nagoya, Japan |
Key people | Akira Nakagawa, President & CEO, Katsuyuki Ikushima, Chairman |
| Products | Rolling stock |
| Revenue | 101,094,000,000 yen (2017)  |
| −5,104,000,000 yen (2017) | |
| −5,114,000,000 yen (2017) | |
| Total assets | 129,194,000,000 yen (2017) |
Number of employees | 1,751 (September 2010) |
| Parent | Central Japan Railway Company |
| Website | www.n-sharyo.co.jp |
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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
- Japan - Odakyu Electric Railway trainsets
- 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
- GO Transit (Metrolinx) Air Rail Link DMUs
Philippines
Singapore
Taiwan
USA
- Northern Indiana South Shore Line EMUs
- Maryland MARC Train single-level push-pull coaches
- Los Angeles Metro LRVs
- P850
- P2020
- Chicago Metra bi-level gallery cars[3]
- Virginia VRE bi-level gallery cars
- San Francisco Bay Area Caltrain bi-level gallery cars
- Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit DMUs[3]
- Highliner rail car
Venezuela
IFE EMUs Working on Caracas-Cua commuter line Sistema Ferroviario Ezequiel Zamora (Central)
Wartime involvement
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 laborers. 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 labor to maintain war production. The POW camp at Narumi provided Allied POW forced labor for Nippon Sharyo.[4]
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:[5]
"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
- ^ a b "JR Central takes majority stake in train builder". Railway Gazette International. 1 October 2008.
- ^ "Taiwan Railway Administration orders tilting trains". Railway Gazette International. 6 January 2011.
- ^ a b "Sonoma-Marin orders commuter DMU cars". Railway Gazette International. 20 December 2010.
- ^ Narumi POW Camp Retrieved 27 June 2010.
- ^ Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
External links
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