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Mari Kumagai
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JRW’s Results Reveal its Outsize Ambition to Diversify, Maintaining FVE at JPY 7,200

West Japan Railway's, or JRW’s, fiscal 2016 result was in line, with net profit increasing 6.3% year over year to JPY 91.2 billion on net revenue falling 0.7% year over year for the first time in seven years. For the year ended March 2017, the mainstay railway operations reported no growth due to declining rural population, underperforming underlying domestic demand growing by 0.5%. We continue to have structural concerns over JRW's larger service territory in rural areas as the company expects ...
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West Japan Railway Company

West Japan Railway is one of the companies that was formed upon the privatization and separation of Japanese National Railways ("JNR") in 1987. Co. operates a railway network covering 18 prefectures in western Honshu and the northern tip of Kyushu, with a total of 5,036.7 km of railway with 1,186 stations and 6,562 rolling stocks as of Mar 31 2017. Co. is engaged in the provision of "Sanyo Shinkansen" and urban network passenger transport service; the operation of convenience stores, department stores and hotels; the operation and management of shopping centers; and the provision of travel agency, advertising agency, as well as maintenance and engineering services.

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Morningstar
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Mari Kumagai

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