Nippon Sharyo, Ltd.

Nippon Sharyo's headquarters
Native name	日本車輌製造株式会社
Romanized name	Nippon Sharyō Seizō kabushiki gaisha
Formerly	Nippon Sharyo Seizo Kaisha, Ltd.
Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 7102 NAG: 7102
Industry	Railways
Founded	September 1896; 127 years ago (1896-09) Japan
Headquarters	Nagoya, Japan
Key people	Tsutomu Morimura (President & CEO), Mikio Tsuge (Senior Managing Director of Nippon Sharyo, Ltd and Chairman of Nippon Sharyo USA, Inc.)
Products	Rolling stock
Revenue	101,094,000,000 yen (2017)
Operating income	−5,104,000,000 yen (2017)
Net income	−5,114,000,000 yen (2017)
Total assets	129,194,000,000 yen (2017)
Number of employees	1,850 (September 2018)
Parent	JR Central (50.1%)
Website	www.n-sharyo.co.jp/index_e.html

Nippon Sharyo, Ltd. (日本車輌製造株式会社, Nippon Sharyō Seizō kabushiki gaisha, literally "Japan Vehicles Manufacture Company" and formerly known outside Japan as Nippon Sharyo Seizo Kaisha, Ltd.), 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, Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) became the majority shareholder (50.1%) of the financially struggling Nippon Sharyo making the firm a "consolidated subsidiary" of JR Central. In July 2012 Nippon Sharyo USA started production in their new facility in Rochelle, Illinois. The facility closed at the end of October 2018 due to a lack of orders.^[1][2]

Notable projects

 Japan

• Shinkansen ("bullet train") trainsets
  • 0 series
  • 100 series
  • 200 series
  • 300 series
  • 500 series
  • 700 series^[2]
  • N700 series
  • E2 series
• Odakyu Electric Railway trainsets
  • Odakyu 1000 series
  • Odakyu 2000 series
  • Odakyu 3000 series
  • Odakyu 4000 series
  • Odakyu 30000 series EXE
  • Odakyu 50000 series VSE
  • Odakyu 60000 series MSE
  • Odakyu 70000 series GSE
• Linimo maglev train
• Keisei Electric Railway trainsets
  • Keisei 3000 series
  • Keisei 3050 series
  • Keisei AE100 series
  • Keisei AE series
• Nearly all Meitetsu trains

 Argentina

• Roca Line
  • Toshiba EMU
• Buenos Aires Underground
  • Nagoya 250/300/1200 series (Retired in 2019)^[3]
  • Nagoya 5000 series^[4]

 Brazil

• SuperVIA Série 500
• Porto Alegre Metro EMUs

 Canada

• Toronto Transit Commission work cars
  • RT10 Garbage car 1967 – Tokyo Rose retired in 2000 and scrapped
  • RT12 Electric locomotive 1968 (design similar to JNR Class DE locomotive), retired 2009 and scrapped
  • RT13 Centre cab crane 1968 – with car and crane cabs
  • RT22 Flat car 1973 – formerly wash car RT-17 and rebuilt 1996
  • RT54 flat car 1973
• Union Pearson Express Diesel Multiple Units
  • Nippon Sharyo DMU (jointly with Sumitomo Corporation) 2014

 Philippines

• Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1 (jointly with Kinki Sharyo)
  • LRTA 1200 class

 Singapore

• Singapore MRT EMU
  • C751B^[5]
  • C151

 Republic of China

• Taiwan Railway Administration
  • EMU700 local/commuter train
  • EMU800 local/commuter train
  • DMU3100 express train
  • TEMU 2000 Tilting trains^[6]
• Taipei Metro
  • Taipei Metro C371
• Taiwan High Speed Rail
  • THSR 700T

 United States

• Next Generation Bi-Level Passenger Rail Car
• Los Angeles County Metro Rail P865 and P2020
• Northern Indiana South Shore Line EMUs
• Maryland MARC Train single-level push-pull coaches (jointly with Sumitomo Corporation)
• Bi-level gallery cars^[7] for Chicago Metra, Virginia VRE, and San Francisco Bay Area Caltrain
• Highliner bi-level EMUs for Metra and South Shore Line
• Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit Nippon Sharyo DMU (jointly with Sumitomo Corporation)^[7]

 Venezuela

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

 Indonesia

Rheostatic series (KRL Rheostatik Mild Steel and Stainless) (The train was also made by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Hitachi):

• Built 1976: Has 2 doors and uses mild steel body types
• Built 1978,1983,1984: Has 3 doors and uses mild steel body types
• Built 1986,1987: Has 3 doors and uses stainless steel body types

All Rheostatic EMUs have stopped operating in the Jabodetabek lines and is currently waiting to be scrapped.

Shinko Diesel Multiple Units (a.k.a. KRD MCW 301 and KRD MCW 302^{[circular reference]}) are used for short-distance lines such as Surabaya-Lamongan, Surabaya-Sidoarjo, etc.

• KRD MCW 301 Built 1976: Has 2 doors and uses mild steel body types
• KRD MCW 302 Built 1978,1980,1982,1987: Has 3 doors and uses mild steel body types

KRD MCW 301 and 302 initially uses the Shinko DMH17H engine and Niigata TCR 2.5 transmission

Note: The DMUs built in 1976 are now used as regular loco-hauled trains without engines. The DMUs made in 1978, 1980, & 1982 upwards are refurbished with a Cummins Engine (NT885-R) and Voith turbo (T211re.3) transmission.

The new rolling stock, known as the MRTJ 1000, was built specifically for the Jakarta MRT^[8]

Wartime involvement

Nippon Sharyo, in 1936, built the JNR Class C56 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 veteran groups raised funds to return the locomotive from Thailand 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.^[9]