抄録
Japanese chemical industry serves a lot in its technology the electronics and other industries in Japan by providing them with their parts and materials.The che-mical industry plays an essential part in developing such future technologies as the alterna-tive energy, biotechnology, new ceramics and so on.At present, Japanese chemical industry have an unexperienced hard time in securing their main raw materials.Furthermore, Japanese chemical industry which has lost their power in the international competition, faces a mass import of intermediate products from U.S.A.at present and from Canada in the near future.Such being the situation, it is very difficult to estimate for us the volume of raw materials in home consumption even if we are able to estimate the demand of the finished goods.Constant efforts are being made in the research and development of new raw materials to solve the existing problems, but it will not be realized until the21st Century.
