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A private railroad is a railroad run by a private business entity (usually a corporation but not need be), as opposed to a railroad run by a public sector. ==Japan== In Japan, , commonly simply ''private railway'', refers to a public transit railway owned and operated by private sector, almost always organized as a corporation (Kabushiki kaisha), but may be any type of private business entity. Although Japan Railways Group companies are also corporations, they are not classified as private railways because of their unique status as the primary successors of the Japanese National Railways (JNR). Voluntary sector railways (semi-public) are additionally not classified as ''shitetsu'' due to their origins as rural, money-losing JNR lines that have since been transferred to local possession, in spite of their organizational structures being corporatized. Among ''private railways'' in Japan, 16 companies are categorized as "major", these same companies also utilize quadruple track and skip-stop services like varying hierarchies of express trains. They are often profitable and tend to be less expensive per passenger-kilometer than JR trains that also run less dense regional routes, and assumed a heavy burden of the former JNR debt. Private railways corporations in Japan also run and generate profits from a variety of other businesses that depend on the traffic generated through their transit systems: hotels, department stores, supermarkets, resorts, and real estate development and leasing. Japan railways whether government run, semi-public, or private business, are regulated by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. They may join unions such as National Railway Workers' Union, but their abilities to call a strike is severely limited by government legislation; there is very little tolerance for railway work stoppage. Employees of private railways may legally strike but its unheard of in Japan. There have only been two notable railroad strikes in Japanese history, both by employees of government run entities (government employees are legally barred from striking): One in 1973,〔http://www.crosscurrents.hawaii.edu/content.aspx?lang=eng&site=japan&theme=work&subtheme=UNION&unit=JWORK081〕 and a major strike protesting the breakup (and layoffs of tens of thousands of employees) of JNR in 1985. Though ''private railways'' such as industrial railways have existed in Japan they are not deemed ''shitetsu'' nor ''mintetsu'' in Japanese, as their purpose is not public transit. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「private railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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