A private railway is a railroad run by a private business entity (usually a corporation but not need be), as opposed to a railroad run by a public sector .
17-446: The Odakyu Tama Line ( 小田急多摩線 , Odakyū Tama-sen ) is a railway line operated by the private railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway in the Greater Tokyo of Japan. The line extends 10.6 kilometres (6.6 mi) from Shin-Yurigaoka Station in Kanagawa Prefecture to Karakida Station in Tokyo. Used for commuter service by the residents of Tama New Town , the largest New Town in Japan, rapid trains are frequent on
34-498: A major strike protesting the breakup (and layoffs of tens of thousands of employees) of JNR in 1985. Though private railways such as industrial railways have existed in Japan they are not deemed shitetsu nor mintetsu in Japanese, as their purpose is not public transit. Tokyo Metro is a member of Japan Private Railway Association but is under special laws and its stock is owned by
51-530: A decrease in the number of young employees due to rationalization and a shrinking of the organization of the Youth Women's Association. Note: The members of the Youth Women's Association will be replaced in accordance with the re-election of union officers. If you are 31 years old at that time, you will be disengaged. Normally, you are re-elected once every two years, so depending on the timing, you will have to do 1-2 more years (if you are 30 years and 11 months old at
68-539: A large part of the transport between Tokyo and Tama New Town. Delay to the quadrupling of the main Odawara Line due to long standing land acquisition conflicts prevented operating extra trains that were to connect the new town and the terminus of Shinjuku. Rapid train services on the Tama Line began in 2000, and succeeded in increasing the number of passengers, shorting transit time. This article incorporates material from
85-509: Is an organization of union members who are generally under the age of 31. In order to promote exchanges among union members, in addition to sports competitions and exchange camps, the "Peace and Friendship Festival, Private Railway Mountain Festival" and "Private Railway Okinawa Exchange" are held every other year. Previously, it was called the "Young Women's Council". In the case of small companies, there are workplaces where there are problems such as
102-681: The Japan Private Railway Association [ ja ] categorizes 16 companies as "major" operators. They are often profitable and tend to be less expensive per passenger-kilometer than JR trains that also run less dense regional routes. Private railways corporations in Japan also run and generate profits from a variety of other businesses that depend on the traffic generated through their transit systems: hotels, department stores, supermarkets, resorts, and real estate development and leasing. Japanese railways, whether government run, semi-public, or private business, are subject to
119-647: The Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies are also kabushiki gaishas, they are not classified as private railways because of their unique status as the primary successors of the Japanese National Railways (JNR). Voluntary sector railways (semi-public) are additionally not classified as shitetsu due to their origins as rural, money-losing JNR lines that have since been transferred to local possession, in spite of their organizational structures being corporatized. Among private railways in Japan,
136-590: The Japanese Government and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (pending privatization). The Japan Private Railway Association counts Tokyo Metro as one of the 16 major private railways. In the United States , a private railroad is a railroad owned by a company and serves only that company, and does not hold itself out as a "common carrier" (i.e., it does not provide rail transport services for
153-449: The 25th House of Councillors ordinary election, Takashi Moriya (Constitutional Democratic Party) who stood as a candidate within the organization (Constitutional Democratic Party) was elected in a proportional ward. As a result, for the first time in nine years, a member of the organization was elected to the Diet. In the 49th House of Representatives general election in 2021, Kiyomi Tsujimoto
170-651: The National Confederation of Trade Unions, but the following year, it left to become a founding affiliate of the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan . It led a strike in 1952, and participated in the general transport strike of 1967, but generally focused on negotiation. By 1967, it had 255,882 members. In 1989, the union was a founding affiliate of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation . By 2020, it had 113,253 members. In 2019,
187-474: The central station of Tama New Town, on April 23, 1975. This section was constructed by the national Japan Railway Construction Corporation, since renamed the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency (JRTT), while Odakyu operated it and paid for the organization. On March 27, 1990, Odakyu opened Karakida station. The line was constructed as double track, but Odakyu could not take
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#1732868620177204-548: The corresponding article in the Japanese Misplaced Pages. Private railway In Japan , private sector railway ( 私鉄 or 民鉄 , Shitetsu or Mintetsu ) , commonly simply private railway , refers to a public transit railway owned and operated by private sector, almost always organized as a joint-stock company , or in Japanese: kabushiki gaisha (lit. stock company), but may be any type of private business entity. Although
221-492: The general public). General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers%27 Unions of Japan The General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions of Japan (PRU, Japanese : 日本私鉄労働組合総連合会 , Shitetsu Soren) is a trade union representing transport workers in Japan. Japan's railway companies, including major private railways excluding the JR Group, Taxis, Hire Companies, and Bus companies, are members, and follow
238-547: The line, running through to Odakyu's Tokyo terminus at Shinjuku on the Odakyu Odawara Line . Since June 2022, the services operating on the Tama Line are as follows: This line was built as a part of Tokyo Line 9, linked with the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line and Odakyu Odawara Line. Odakyu started service on the first section, from Shin-Yurigaoka to Odakyū-Nagayama, on June 1, 1974. It expanded to Tama Center,
255-796: The regulations enforced by the Railway Bureau [ ja ] of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism . They may join unions such as National Railway Workers' Union and General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions of Japan , but their abilities to call a strike is severely limited by government legislation; there is very little tolerance for railway work stoppage. Employees of private railways may legally strike but its unheard of in Japan. There have only been two notable railroad strikes in Japanese history, both by employees of government run entities (government employees are legally barred from striking): One in 1973, and
272-772: The trend of the old general review system. Japan is a member of the Confederation of Trade Unions (Confederation), the Japan Transport Industry Trade Union Council (Transport Workers' Association), and the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF). The union was founded on 10 January 1947 as a split from the Japan Transportation Labor Union Alliance. It was a founding affiliate of the original Japanese Trade Union Confederation. In 1949, it affiliated to
289-655: Was defeated, but in the following 2022, in the 26th ordinary election for members of the House of Councillors, the Federation of Private Railways decided to make Tsujimoto a candidate "within the quasi-organization]. Tsujimoto, who ran as a proportional representation candidate from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan in the same election, won the election with more than 400,000 , and returned to national politics. There are blocks such as Hyogo and Wakayama. It
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