VOL. XXXII

NO. 49

11-SEPTEMBER-1989

SUPPLY/DEMAND

Japan's 5% Energy Demand Growth Calls for Revised Supply Forecast, SaysFujime

According to Mr. Kazuya Fujime, Director of the Research Department atthe Institute of Energy Economics, Tokyo, the fact that Japan's current energydemand growth is running at around 5% annually, rather than the average annualrate of 1.3% forecast by MITI in 1987, implies that "the level of energydemand of FY1998 in the previous forecast will have been reached at the end...