LIST OF PRELIMINARY STUDIES 
NATURAL RESOURCES SECTION • * ' ' 
1. Formosan Metal and Mineral Statistics ’ ^ 29 Oct 
2. Coke in Japan ' 15 Nov 
3. Quality and Uses of Japaneso Coal and Lignite 31 Dec 
4. Food Position of Japan for the 1947 Rico Year (as 
of 1 Nov 46) - 3 Feb 
5. Japan's Big Fishing Companies 13 Mar 
6. Japanese Food Collection Program with Emphasis on - 
Collection of the 1946 Rice Crop 11 Mar 
7. Garnet Resources of Japan 1 Apr 
8. Consumption of Expendable Materials by Japaneso 
Coal Mines 1 May 
9. Radio-Grado Quartz Crystal Resources in Japan 10 May 
£•. Japanese Oyster Seed Export Program for 1947 3 Jun 
11. Newsprint in Japan 6 Jun 
12. Experimental Smelting and Refining of Iron-Chromium- 
Nickel Ore in Japan 12 Jun 
13 » 1947 Summer Grain Collection and Related Problems 19 Jul 
14. Machinery Distribution in the Japanese Mineral Industry 19 Jul 
15. Pyrophyllito Resources in Japan 19 Aug 
16. The Briquette Industry in Japan in 1947 24 Sop 
17. Material Consumption in the’ Japaneso Mining Industry 27 Sop 
18. Collection of 1947 Fall Crops in Japan 22 Nov 
19. Sourco3 of Coal in East Asia 10 Dec 
20. Machinery Distribution in the Japaneso Coal Mining 
Industry 17 Dec 
21. The Coated Paper Industry of Japan 17 Mar 
22. jjtilization of Methane as Fuol in Japan 7 Apr 
23. The Cigarette Paper Industry of Japan 28 Apr 
24. Japanese Sponge Culture Experiments in the South 
Pacific Islands 5 May 
25. Outlook for Japanese Agriculture 6 May 
26. Sources of Bauxite in Asia 1 Jun 
27. Japanese Government Forestry Research, 1947 9 Jun 
28. Japaneso Wildlife Sanctuaries and Public Hunting 
Grounds, 1948 18 Sop 
29. Japanese Antarctic '.'/haling Expedition, 1947-48 2 Oct 
30. Talc Rosourcos in Japan 14 Oct 
31. Fisheries Cooperatives of Japan 14 Jun 
32. Materials and Power Used in Nonforrous Smelting and 
Refining in Japan 26 Mar 
33. Forest Fuol Production in Japan 12 Jul 
34. Japanese Antarctic Whaling Expedition, 1948-49 31 Oct 
35. Electric Furnace for Smelting Low-Grade Gres in Japan 18 Nov 
36. Development’ of Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan 24 Feb 
37. Forest Area, Volume, and Growth in Japan 12 May 
38. Japanese Fishing Fleet Statistics, 1948 16 May 
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