Since the dispatch of Japan’s first Antarctic Research Expedition in 1956, Antarctic observation has a history of 62 years. On the 60th Antarctic Research Expedition ocean observations were made from the icebreaker Shirase en route to and from Australia and in Lützow-Holm Bay near Showa Station. I would like to introduce the activities of the 60th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, which successfully completed its objectives in spite of difficult voyages due to stormy weather and rough sea-ice belts.