Should the JR Central chairman really aim to bring shinkansen to the US?”
The chairman of Central Japan Railway Co. said the company is aiming to work with U.S. companies such as General Electric Co., as part of an aggressive bid to see its platypus-billed shinkansen whiz its way through the state of Florida. At the same time that the company is aggressively ramping up to do business in the U.S., Yoshiyuki Kasai, the 69-year-old head of JR Central, said in an interview Monday that he will never try to sell his world-leading product in China—a strategy at odds with many Japanese companies focusing increasingly on their rapidly growing neighbor. View Full Image shink0216 Bloomberg News A Central Japan Railway shinkansen bullet train passes through Odawara Station, in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. shink0216 shink0216 “It’s not possible to export our trains to China. They would steal our technology and they would not respect it,” said Mr. Kasai, who has worked in Japan’s rail business for 48 years and has become a larger-than-life figure who doesn’t mince his word
TOKYO—The chairman of Central Japan Railway Co. said the company is aiming to work with U.S. companies such as General Electric Co., as part of an aggressive bid to see its platypus-billed shinkansen whiz its way through the state of Florida. At the same time that the company is aggressively ramping up to do business in the U.S., Yoshiyuki Kasai, the 69-year-old head of JR Central, said in an interview Monday that he will never try to sell his world-leading product in China—a strategy at odds with many Japanese companies focusing increasingly on their rapidly growing neighbor. “It’s not possible …
