ＪＲ３社、過去最大の赤字　計１兆円、コロナで利用者減―２１年３月期

　ＪＲ東日本とＪＲ西日本、ＪＲ東海が３０日までに発表した２０２１年３月期連結決算は、純損益がそろって大幅な赤字に陥った。赤字額は３社合計で１兆円を超えた。通期での赤字は、ＪＲ東とＪＲ東海が１９８７年の国鉄分割民営化後で初めて、ＪＲ西は９９年３月期以来で、いずれも過去最悪の決算。新型コロナウイルス流行の影響で新幹線、在来線ともに利用者数が急減した。
　赤字額はＪＲ東が５７７９億円（前期は１９８４億円の黒字）、ＪＲ西が２３３２億円（同８９３億円の黒字）、ＪＲ東海が２０１５億円（同３９７８億円の黒字）。ＪＲ西の長谷川一明社長は３０日の会見で「非常に厳しい決算だ」と語った。（2021/04/30-19:58）

Combined group net losses at three major Japan Railways Group companies in fiscal 2020 topped 1 trillion yen, with passenger demand faltering amid the continuing spread of the novel coronavirus, according to their earnings reports released by Friday.
   In the year that ended in March, East Japan Railway Co. , or JR East, and Central Japan Railway Co. , or JR Tokai, incurred their first annual net losses since they and other JR Group firms, including West Japan Railway Co. , or JR West, were created in April 1987 through the breakup and privatization of the Japanese National Railways.
   JR West suffered its first annual net loss since fiscal 1998, with the latest red ink marking its worst result on the bottom line.
   The coronavirus crisis led to sharp decreases in passengers on the three firms' Shinkansen bullet trains and non-Shinkansen trains. The net loss came to 577.9 billion yen at JR East, 201.5 billion yen at JR Tokai and 233.2 billion yen at JR West, compared with the preceding year's net profits of 198.4 billion yen, 397.8 billion yen and 89.3 billion yen, respectively.
   "The (fiscal 2020) result was very tough," JR West President Kazuaki Hasegawa told a press conference on Friday.