Nippon Sharyo controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1943
Wartime production and forced-labor legacy
Nippon Sharyo-built locomotive C56 31 was used in the opening of the Thai–Burma Railway, whose construction involved extensive forced labor and severe abuses against Allied prisoners of war and other laborers. Historical material also links the Narumi prisoner-of-war camp's forced labor to the company's wartime production. The issue is a historical wartime labor matter rather than a contemporary corporate scandal.