Japanese 2-8-2 with a freight train seen in 1971

One of the 285 examples of the Class D52 built by the Japanese Government Railways (Now Japanese National Railways) and various manufacturers -- Kisha Seizo, Nippon Sharyo, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries -- from 1943 to 1946. 

The designation consists of a "D" for the four sets of driving wheels and the class number 52 for tender locomotives that the numbers 50 through 99 were assigned to under the 1928 locomotive classification rule.

Seven are preserved.

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