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In their voyages to the Antarctic whaHng grounds oceanographic 

 observations have been made on board the Japanese fleet of whalers by 

 the members of the meteorological agencies. 



3. Three-Agency Marine Research Coordination Council 



Three government agencies, the Hydrographic Office, Maritime 

 Safety Agency, Fisheries Research Laboratories, and the Meteorological 

 Agencies meet in negotiations about three times every year in order to 

 coordinate the mutual understanding and cooperation, and the repre- 

 sentative members from each agency showing one another their results 

 of observations and expeditions after the preceding meeting, and con- 

 ferring about the plans and areas to be explored by each agency in 

 the subsequent period so that they may not be superposed one upon 

 the other. 



4. National Committee on Geophysics^ Section of Physical 

 Oceanography 



This is a committee established in Japan to keep sound liaison with 

 the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. The Section of 

 Physical Oceanography has about 13 members; Dr. Koji Hidaka is the 

 chairman and Dr. Yasuo Miyake is the secretary. 



A sub-committee has been appointed in this section on the pre- 

 paration of standard sea water, under Dr. Yasuo Miyake, chairman. 

 Since the administration of the Standard Sea Water must be interna- 

 tional, it is agreed within home oceanographers that this sub-committee 

 should be dismissed as soon as the international standards become avail- 

 able in this country. It was only in 1952 that we could have Copen- 

 hagen water in Japan. 



There is the Special Committee for Marine Resources in the Com- 

 mission for UNESCO, Science Council of Japan, and Dr. M. Ishibashi 

 is now the chairman. 



5. The Oceanographical Society of Japan 



This scientific society was established in January 1941 under Dr. 

 Takematsu Okada as the president. It has issued a popular monthly 

 journal "Kaiyo no Kagaku" (Science of the Sea) and the Journal of the 

 Oceanographical Society of Japan (quarterly, purely scientific), both in 

 the Japanese language, and recently it recommended to publish papers 

 in English in the journal. The president is now Dr. Koji Hidaka. 

 "Kaiyo no Kagaku" has not been issued since 1951. 



6. Pacific Science Investigations 



Dr. Shinkishi Hatai, who has long worked as the member for Japan 

 in the Pacific Science Council, resigned in 1950 from this position and 



