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history, music, mathematics, linglish, wireless 

 telegraphy, xoology, fisheries, hydrology, mete- 

 orology, fishing "boats, machinery, drafting, 

 practical boat exerpises, and navigation. 



(6) Support for the school comes from entrance fees, 

 tuition fees, and prefectural government grants. 

 Its expenditures in 1945 amotmted to approximately 

 ¥27,000. 



c. A list of the prefectural fisheries schools is given in 

 Locations are shown in Figure 2. 



2. The Fisheries Colleges 



a. The Hakodate Fisheries College, at Hakodate, Hokkaido, 

 operates under the Ministiy of Education, and the Tokyo Fisheries College, 

 Tokyo, operates under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, These 

 colleges or higher schools of fisheries, give courses which last from 

 three to five yeers- according to the type of study selected, 



b. The Tokyo Fisheries College is a direct descendant of 

 the oldest higher fisheries school in Japan, The first fisheries school 

 was organized in 1889 under the auspices of the Fisheries Society of Japan. 

 This school was transferred from the society to the Imperial G-overnment of 

 Japan in 1897, when research and experimentation were added to its original 

 scope. In 1929 it was formally reorganized as an educational institution 

 and was called the Imperial Fisheries Institute (Suisan Koshujo). In April 

 1946 the name was changed to Tokyo Fisheries College (see Figure 3). 



c. The College operates under the Ministry of Agriculture 

 and Forestry. It is the only educational institution in Japan not under 

 the supervision of the Ministry of Education. Thus, a certain degree of 

 freedom and independence has resulted. 



d. The appropriations received by the College since 1940 

 are as follows: 



The steady increase in appropriations in the regular budget and the 

 steep increases in the special work budget during the war years, should 

 be noted. 



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