TOKYO -- Hokkaido Railway, the in-the-red laggard of the Japan Railway group, plans to turn around its finances by tapping a familiar source for its next chairman: sister company East Japan Railway.
While Yoshitaka Taura is the third chairman in a row to come over from East Japan Railway, the selection of a man without an engineering degree is a decidedly different choice from his two predecessors, who came with strong technical backgrounds.
