History of rail transport in Japan

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This article is part of the history of rail transport by country series. The history of rail transport in Japan began in the late Edo period. There have been four main stages: Stage 1, from 1872, the first line, from Tokyo to Yokohama, to the end of the Russo-Japanese war; Stage 2, from nationalization in 1906–07 to the end of World War II; Stage 3, from the postwar creation of Japanese National Railways to 1987; Stage 4, from privatization to the present, with JNR split among six new railway operators for passengers and one for freight.

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