Japanese Railway chairman Yoshiyuki Kasai dies of pneumonia

Yoshiyuki Kasai, the honorary chairman of Central Japan Railway Co. who played a key role in privatizing Japan National Railways in the late 1980s, died of interstitial pneumonia, the train operator said Friday. Kasai died Wednesday, one of three key figures, along with the former presidents of JR East and JR West, who led the reform of Japan's railway system and the dissolution of the state-owned operator in 1987. Six regional passenger railway firms and a freight operator were created by the privatization, along with several other private companies.

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