BIBLIOGRAPHY 
This bibliography, while perhaps not complete, includes all the known technical and 
semi-technical references to the fur seal published in Japan, Accounts in nevepapers and 
popular magazines are not included unlees they were reviewed or summarized in one of thea 
more technical periodicals, 
By far the greater number of the references are found in the "Journal of the Fieh- 
eries Society of Japan," the leading Japanese fisheries periodical, which was first pubd- 
lished as the "Dai Nippon Suisan Kaiho" (literally "Transactions of the Imperial Fisheries 
Association"), The editora added the Englieh subtitle "Journal of the Fisheries Society 
of Japan" in 1888, and in 1902 inaugurated the custom of incorporating English summaries 
of important articles and news items. Both the English subtitle and summaries were dropped 
in 1915 with No 398, and the Japanese title was changed to “Suieankai" (literally “Fishery 
Association") at the same time, ‘The journal always has been issued monthly except when 
war or adverse economic conditions interfered, but instead of being separated into annual 
volumes ite issues have been numbered consecutively throughout its publication without 
regard for the several changes of title, ‘The journal ie semi-technical in nature and deals 
with all phases of Japanese fisheries, In addition to publishing technical papers it re- 
views pertinent articles in other periodicals and prints news notes which are of particu- 
lar value in mirroring the attitude of the Japanese toward fisheries problems, All refer- 
ences to the fur seal have been extracted from a complete file running from No 1 in 1882 
to No 782, June 1949, 
Three other Japanese periodicals contain references to the fur seal. Hone of these 
bas had as successful an uninterrupted length of publication as “Suisankai", The first 
is the "Suisan Chosajyo Jigyo Hokoku" (literally “Reports of the Fisheries Investigation 
Section of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce"), These reports, all strictly tech- 
nical in scope, were produced by government technicians but were published with funds pro- 
vided by the Fisheries Society for a limited period from 1894 to 1897, 
The Fisheries Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture and Porestry started a quarterly 
of its own called "Sutaan Iho" (literally “Fisheries Bulletin") in December 1929, It was 
unable to continue as a quarterly, however, and wes published only irregularly as funds 
and paper were available, It terminated with No 7 in March 1937, 
The moet recent fisheries journal is “Hokuyo Gyogyo" (literally "Northern Fisheries") 
which was first publisbed in May 1940, A monthly devoted to the activities of the north- 
ern fishing fleet which operated from Hokkaido to the Bering Sea, it.was an early war 
casualty, Its last number was published in June 1943, 
A few quotations are included from the more strictly technical journals, particularly 
"Dobutsugaku Zasshi" or "The Zoological Magazine" published by the Zoological Society of 
Japan under the auspices of Tokyo Imperial University, and "Shokubutsu Dobutsu" or "Botany 
and Zoology", also published in Tokyo, 
All works cited, unless otherwise stated, are in the Japanese language, In quoting 
the names of authors, journals, and titles in Japanese the original Kanji or Chinese char- 
acters have been replaced by Romanized spelling, When such a name or title is given in 
Romaji in the original, that original spelling is used, Otherwise the modified Hepburn 
system of Romani.ation is followed in all transcriptions, The titles of all papers pub- 
lished in the well-known journals mentioned above are given in Englieh translation alone 
ae volume and page references should suffice to locate them. To facilitate finding the 
few books and other separately published itezs listed, their original titles have been 
Romanized and added to the English translations thereof, 
