Oceanic Study in Japan-Its Progress in the Last Decade

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In commemoration of the 30 years Anniversary of the Oceanographical Society of Japan founded in January of 1941, we have congratulated it already on the Beer Party Evening of October 5, 1971 at Hakodate Citizen Hall, Hokkaido on the occasion of the Annual Autumnal Meeting of our Society and opened a Memorial Popular Lectures on the next day at the same Hall by some of the members. After the Foreword by Prof. Yositada TAKENOUTI as the chairman and convener of the Meeting, the Lectures were delivered on Subarctic Fisheries Oceanography by Prof. Tokimi TSUJITA, on Subarctic Marine Meteorology and Disaster Prevention by Dr. Jiro SUGIURA and on Coastal Development and Problems of Marine Pollution by Prof. Michitaka UDA.
Further we have decided to publish “Oceanic Study in Japan-Its Progress in the Last Decade” as a special volume of the Journal of the Oceanographical Society of Japan (Vol.27, No.6, Dec. 1971) by the following editorial members for each discipline and summaries of oceanography during 1961-1971 (Editor in chief: Prof. Sanae UNom):
Foreword…Prof. Michitaka UDA
General outline…Prof. Michitaka UDA
Physical oceanography. Prof. Kozo YOSHIDA
Chemical oceanography. Dr. Yukio SUGIMURA Prof. Yoshio HORIBE
Biological oceanography. Prof. Ryuzo MARUMO
Fisheries oceanography. Prof. Makoto ISHINO
Marine geology… Dr. Hideo KAGAMI Marine geophysics Dr. Kazuo KOBAYASHI Historical development of the Society… Prof. Sanae UNOKI Including some photos associated with the activities of the Society and representative research vessels in Japan.
The present issue may provide the perspective advance of our oceanographical society particularly in the last ten years (1961-71) and the materials of our future prospectus with best wishes.(Tables in Appendices illustrate some extracted matters of our activity.)
During the last decade our society has developed to the doubled size for the number of members (now beyond 1, 000 including 90 in foreign countries) and for the amount of pages of the Journal.
We are proud of the International Oceanographic Assembly, “The Ocean World, ” held in September 13-25, 1970 at Tokyo (IAPSO XV, IABO II, CMG IV, SCOR X) cosponsored by the Science Council of Japan and our society. The Proceedings of the Assembly (562 pages) was already published and distributed at the end of 1971. In this opportunity it is heartily appreciated to the efforts paid by those contributors who devoted to the above advance of our society and to the success of all meetings concerned.
An oriental wiseman said, “Coming at age 30 he stands on his feet.” After passing through troublesome postwar times our society arrived at the rather financially stabilized situation and may develop in more active state in near future. It is hoped cordially sincere cooperation of all our members for the Society in future.