the seven Imperial universities in Japan Proper have departments of 

 fisheries. These university departments represent the highest level of 

 fisheries education in Japan. Three-year courses are given which lead 

 to a Tiniversity degree, the Crakushi. Graduate schools are also provided 

 which grant the Hakashi or doctor's degree. The xiniversities train men 

 for research and the highest civil service pos-itions attainable hy techn 

 cally trained men. 



6. Besides the provision made for fisheries education at every 

 level and for every purpose, Japan has 118 government-supported fisheries 

 and marine products research stations and branch stations. The Imperial 

 Government supports the largest, the Imperial Fisheries Experimental 

 Station in Tokyo, with five branch stations strategically located through- 

 out the country. The station and its branches carry on investigations 



in all fields of fisheries biology, fisheries chemistry, and oceanography. 

 They also gather daily records and prepare monthly reports on the location 

 of warm and cold bodies of water, broadcast weather reports, and the 

 whereabouts and movements of fish. 



7. Forty-fo\ir prefectures support 112 research stations and 

 branch stations. These carry on research in local problems relating to 

 the fisheries industry, both biological and chemical. Some of the 

 stations and branch stations do only fresh-water research. In addition 

 to these, 21 marine and fresh-water biological stations that do biologi- 

 cal work in fisheries and related subjects are associated with universi- 

 ties and colleges. Two large fishing companies heve private laboratories 

 with branch stations doing biological and chemical research in fisheries, 

 and there is one privately endowed marine fisheries and biological 

 station. A total of 145 marine and fresh-water fisheries research 

 stations are investigating the chemistry and biology of marine products 

 in Japan Proper. One of the stations- is in Okinawa. 



8. An important reseexch station is located in Fusan, iCorea, 

 in addition to 13 branch or provincial stations in Korea, five stations 

 in Formosa, one in Karafuto, one in the South Seas (Palau) , one in 

 Kwantung, and three in Manchuria. Before the war, 170 marine research 

 stations were operated in areas controlled by Japan. 



B. Fisheries Educational Institutions 



1. The Prefectural Fisheries School • 



a. Entrance to the 32 prefectural fisheries schools in 

 Japan is limited to graduates of the six-year elementary schools. At 

 times these schools are run separately from the prefectural fisheries 

 research stations. In some cases the staff serves both as teachers ana 

 8S members of the research staff. 



b. A typical example is the Kanagawa Prefectural Fisheries 



