Japan's economic zone and continental shelf has the world's leading reservoirs as far as cobalt-rich crusts, hydrothermal ore deposits, and methane hydrates are concerned.To utilize seabed resources within our sovereignty and to achieve the further development of resources of the world ocean floor, it's necessary to make every effort and capital investment to keep going far ahead of the rest of the world in terms of technology for seabed resources development.
Selected Papers No.9(p.22)

A variety of discussions describing issues related to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond the jurisdiction of the state was held to promote international cooperation.Setting a kind of controlled sea area such as a marine protected area in the ocean which is beyond jurisdiction is pointed out as a violation of the current international law, however, let's face the fact that controlled sea areas called marine protected area have already been established.Such discussions and practices will possibly have a great influence on the future ocean regime.

This article proposes a floating container terminal, LNG receiving central transportation system, and floating nuclear electric power generation as examples of highly-functional marine floats which take advantage of interior space use and quake-absorption.Japan's ocean industry is growing and hopefully a highly-functional marine float will be increasingly utilized.