In mineral resources, Japan's position was very poor, and the country became more dependent upon outside sources of supply for most raw materials at the outbreak of the war. This handbook on Japan's natural resources includes information on forest resources (production and supply of timber, pulp, charcoal, government control/management), fisheries (production, preservation/marketing, fishing industry, government policy), hydroelectric power (reserves, consumption, production, supply areas, organization/government control), mineral resources (national policy, coal, petroleum, iron ore, ferro-alloys, non-ferrous metals, non-metallic minerals, management/government control), and building materials.

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