Keihin Electric Express Railway
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Will Blue Lights Reduce Suicides in Japan?...later pointed to anecdotal evidence that crime had fallen. Last year, Japan's Keihin Electric Express Railway set up blue lights inside a station in Yokohama, just west of Tokyo. Other train operators have set up blue lights at railroad... In this article: Suicide, Tokyo, Asia, Japan, Keio University, East Japan Railway, and Psychology |
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New Orleans Times-Picayune | November 05, 2009
Tokyo train stations use lights to stem suicides
Another company, Keihin Electric Express Railway Co., which operates in Tokyo and nearby Yokohama, also installed the blue lights at two stations last year after there were two suicides within a month at one of the two stations. "We...
In this article: Suicide, Tokyo, East Japan Railway Co., Psychology, Keihin Electric Express Railway Co., Japan, and Fukuyama University
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Wikipedia | October 20, 2009
Kawasaki Daishi
...largest figure in Japan and the largest in Kanagawa Prefecture. Keihin Electric Express Railway, the oldest railroad company in the Kanto region of Japan, commenced service in January 1899 to carry passengers to Kawasaki Daishi from Tokyo.
In this article: Kawasaki Daishi, Japan, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kawasaki, and Tokyo
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PSFK | July 08, 2009
Facial Recognition Measures Smiles For Customer Service
Facial Recognition Measures Smiles For Customer Service The Keihin Electric Express Railway Co. in Japan is scanning the smiles of employees every day to improve customer service. The facial recognition system detects eye movements, lips,...
In this article: Keihin Electric Express Railway Co., Omron Corp., Kyoto, Tokyo, and Japan
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Kanazawa-Bunko Station
Kanazawa-Bunko Station , is a station operated by Keihin Electric Express Railway (Keikyu) located in Kanazawa Ward , Yokohama, Japan. It opened on April 1, 1930. The average daily ridership from this station in 2005 was 73,650 passengers.
In this article: Japan
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Neatorama | July 07, 2009
Smile! (It's Mandatory)
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Yokohama Museum of Art
...Art". The exhibit attracted a long list of corporate sponsors including Asahi Shimbun, Dai Nippon Printing, Japan Airlines, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Kanagawa Shimbun, Keihin Electric Express Railway and Television Kanagawa. Also in...
In this article: Yokohama Museum of Art, Marcel Duchamp, Louvre, Glass ceiling, Pritzker Prize, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Asahi Shimbun, Henri Matisse, and Kenzo Tange
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The Japan Times: All Stories | February 16, 2009
Kanagawa Prefecture can be Japan's clean-air trailblazer
...people from secondhand smoke. Since then, many taxis across Japan have banned smoking. The Keihin Kyuko Railway has banned smoking in all its stations. Japan Tobacco has an admirable campaign trying to remind smokers how their habit affects...
In this article: Japan, Kanagawa Prefecture, New York City, Tofu, Japanese food, Japan Tobacco, Keihin Kyuko Railway, and U.S.
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Hanshin Main Line
Among the followers are Keihan Electric Railway, Minoo Arima Electric Tramway (presnt Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc.), Osaka Electric Tramway (present Kintetsu), Keihin Electric Railway (present Keihin Electric Express Railway). The...
In this article: Hankyu, West Japan Railway Company, Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Osaka, Kobe Rapid Railway, Hanshin Electric Railway, Kobe, Emu, and Sanyo Electric Railway
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Keikyu Kawasaki Station
Keikyu Kawasaki Station is a railway station of the Keihin Electric Express Railway located in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. The station is one of two main rail transportation hubs for the city of Kawasaki (the other being JR Kawasaki...
In this article: Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Yodobashi Camera, and Japan
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The Keihin Electric Express Railway Co., Ltd. (TYO: 9006), also known as Keihin Kyūkō or, more recently, Keikyū, is a private railroad that connects inner Tokyo to Kawasaki, Yokohama, Yokosuka and other points on the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture. 京浜 means the Tokyo (東京) - Yokohama (横浜) area. The companies railway origins date back to 1898, but the current company dates to 1948. The Kanto region's first electric train rolled in January 1899. It celebrated Tokyo's and the companies' 100 years of electric railroad history in pictures in February 1998. Of the major railway companies today, only Nankai Electric Railway of Osaka predates Keikyu in operating electric trains.
It is part of the Fuyo Group (or keiretsu) and has its headquarters in Minato, Tokyo.
Trains on the Main Line have a maximum operating speed of 120 km/h, making it the second fastest private railroad in the Tokyo region, after the Tsukuba Express. The railroad's gauge is 1,435 mm, differing from the more common rail gauge in Japan, 1,067 mm.
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