Significance
The ultimate goal of disbanding the JNR was to privatize the newly-created JR satellite companies. Each of the seven companies was created as joint stock with the Japanese government as sole shareholder. Currently, JR East is entirely privatized, with JR West and JR Central largely so. JNRSC still holds titles to the remaining four JR Group companies, Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido), Shikoku Railway Company (JR Shikoku), Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu), and the Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight).
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