Since June 1957, the Energy Group Committee of Technical Council (annexed to the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology) has been taking a synthetical and systematical counter-measure against the technical problems on energy development.The Group Committee (Head, Shinzo Okuda) proposed on March 23, 1959 a report to the Director of the Agency, the full text of which has been compiled and published by the Japan Power Association entitled, “Recent Problems of Energy Development”.
In this paper, the author based on the Report outlines the recent technical counter-meas-ure of energy in Japan.