Mr. Yoshio Ishida, Vice Chairman of JR East and UIC Chairman, inaugurated on 11th June the Brussels Office of the Japanese railway company in presence of representatives of CER (Johannes Ludewig and members of the CER team), EIM (Michael Robson), UIC (Paul Véron representing the UIC Director General Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Simon Fletcher and the team of UIC Brussels Office) together with numerous guests from national railway companies as well as Japanese industrial and business companies.

The Brussels JR East Office is going to represent interests of the Japanese railway company in relationship with a number of European partners and simultaneously will work on a series of UIC technical issues (to support UIC Chairman Yoshio Ishida). JR Office should develop close cooperation links with the UIC Brussels Office and UIC HQ, in particular in the fields of technology and research, safety, signalling, interoperability, sustainable transport.

The JR Brussels Office is located 53 avenue des Arts in Brussels, in the same building as CER, UIC Brussels Office and representations of ÖBB and PKP. Managers of the Office are Mr. Naoya Koide and Mr. Koichiro Suzuki (koichiro-s at japanrail.be)