TABLE 3—ContinuedJAPAN MINERALS YEARBOOK—1988  307 
JAPAN: IMPORTS OF MINERAL COMMODITIES1 
(Metric tons unless otherwise specified) 
 
Commodity 1986 1987 United   States 
Sources, 1987 
 
Other (principal) 
MINERAL FUELS AND 
RELATED MATERIALS—Continued 
91 347 
92,554 
9,256 
Australia 47,126; Canada 16,845. 
Coal: 
 
 
 
 
Anthracite and bituminous thousand tons 
 
 
 
 
Lignite including briquets 
25,415 
42,541 
951 
U.S.S.R. 35085; Australia 5389. 
Coke and semicoke 
44,977 
125795 
27,478 
Australia 55,192; China 24,268. 
Gas, natural: Liquefied thousand tons 
28,394 
NA 
 
 
Peat including briquets and litter 
31,577 
38,818 
635 
Canada 34,492; U.S.S.R. 1,884. 
Petroleum: 
1 157,267 
1 131 957 
 
Saudi Arabia 249,41 1 ; United Arab Emirates 217,521; Indonesia 146,762.

Crude thousand 42-gallon barrels 
 
 
— 
 
Refinery products: 
137,719 
12484613 
10,836 
Malaysia 70,840; Saudi Arabia 70,722. 
Liquefied petroleum gas do. 
 
 
 
 
Gasoline do. 
132,945 
153,714 
* 6,026 
Saudi Arabia 43,888; Kuwait 17,624; Singapore 13,872. 
Mineral jelly and wax do. 
1 74 
96 
39 
China 21. 
Kerosene and jet fuel do. 
32,859 
57,886 
2,574 
Singapore 18,026; Saudi Arabia 16,209. 
Distillate fuel oil do. 
9,836 
28,404 
2,729 
Algeria 3,490; United Arab Emirates 2,512. 
Lubricants value, thousands 
$69,531 
$93,781 
$43,608 
Singapore $16,275; West Germany $9,808. 
Residual fuel oil thousand 42-gallon barrels 
1 03,377 
1 09,943 
7,1 04 
Indonesia 33,237; Singapore 17,199. 
Bitumen and other residues do. 
250 
384 
208 
Singapore 39. 
Bituminous mixtures do. 
13 
12 
5 
Republic of Korea 4. 
Petroleum coke do. 
21,415 
21,371 
19,612 
U.S.S.R. 643; China 352. 
NA Not available. 
1 Excludes imports under Japanese-United States Mutuai Defense Agreement
or for account of U.S. military forces. Table prepared by Audrey D. wilkes.

2 ~ than 1/2 unit. 
 
3 Excludes unreported quantities valued at $10,246,000 in 1986 and $12,002,000
in 1987. 
4 Excludes unreported quantities valued at $2,797,000 in 1986 and $4,880,000
in 1987. 
5Excludes unreported quantities valued at $12,393,000 in 1986 and $2,675,000
in 1987. 
6 Excludes unreported quantities valued at $8,562,000 in 1986 and $16,992,000
in 1987. 
7 Ecludes unreported quantities valued at $27,344,000 in 1986 and $27.1 18,000
in 1987. 
8 May include platinum-group metals. 
9 May include some arsenic. 
10 Unreported quantity including crude magnesite, valued at $40,427,000 imported
mainly from China. 
1 1 Unreported quantity valued at $30,000. 
 
12lncludes liquefied natural gas. 
 
 
 
next 8 years. Venalum was 20°lo-.owned by a six-member Japanese consortium
led by Showa Denko Co. Ltd.; Marubeni was one of the six member companies.7

 A five-member Japanese consortium signed a memorandum of understanding in
May with SGF, a Quebec Pro- 
vincial government industrial holding company, to participate in building
a $1 billion aluminum smelter with an initial capacity of 250,000 tons per
year along the St. Lawrence Waterway in Quebec. The Japanese consortium consisted
of Mitsubishi Corp. , Mitsubishi Metal Corp., Kobe Steel Ltd., Toyo Sash
Co. 
Ltd., and Yoshida Kogyo K.K.8 Japanese overseas aluminum smelter operations
in 1988 are shown in table 4. 
 
 Cadmium and Bismuth.—Japan was the second largest producer of
cadmium
and the third largest producer of bismuth in the world in 1988. Produc