JR West not to appeal fatal train crash case to top court

JR West not to appeal fatal train crash case to top court

OSAKA, Japan - Shojiro Nanya (L), president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks at a news conference Dec. 30 in Osaka's Kita Ward about the company's decision not to appeal to the Supreme Court a ruling by the Osaka High Court ordering it and a small railway firm to compensate the families of nine of 42 people killed in a fatal train crash in Shiga Prefecture in 1991.

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