The Importance of Electrification of Railroad in Japan

Abstract

This article deals with the reasons why we recommend to the Government that electrification of the Government Railroads should be carried out as quickly as possible under the present situations.
Most important reasons for the necessity of railroad electrification are the characteristics of energy-construction in Japan and the fact that the thermal efficiency of the steam locomotives is the lowest among the big consumers of coal in Japan.
Hereupon the electrification will enable us to promote the economic rehabilitation as the result of the improvement of energy-construction in Japan.