Gasoline
Desperate War of Japan in the Pacific
 Charcoal bus
Gasoline shares in Japan
YearIJAIJNMerchant[Mbbl]
194016.0% 3.6%6.3280.4%
194139.5% 10.8%1.5849.7%
194245.3% 14.2%1.0740.5%
1943 40.8%17.7%1.0541.5%
194464.1% 17.7%0.2618.1%
194565.3% 16.3%0.1618.4%
Charcoal bus
Bus
Japan was dependent on gasolin imported from US before the Pacific War. Government limited usage of gasolin in merchant or civil fields in 1941. So buses or taxies were modified to run by burning charcoal fuel. The merchant fields was 80.4% share, 6.323 million bbl in 1940 year. The table shows change of comsumption and merchant share of gasoline. The comsumption for merchant use decreased 1/40 sharply in the Pacific War.
Hinkoku, p108, p124-126
Hokkaido Bus Association

 Import and production
Refined oil of Japan [kbbl]
YearImportProductionTotal
194015,11010,80625,916
19415,24215,99721,239
19422,37816,67419,052
19434,65216,16720,819
19443,3349,61512,949
194501,9331,933

Japan always worried about shortage of gasoline in the Pacific War. The table shows the import and the production of gasloine etc. US banned export of high quality aviation gasoline in December 1939 and low quality gasoline (less than 87 octane) in Jul 1940.
Ishii, p72-73
レギュラーガソリンの比重は0.73、プレミアムガソリンで0.77、軽油では 0.83

IJA Tokuyama oil refinery plant suceeded in production of 92 octane aviation gasoline in March 1937. IJA Yokkaichi oil refinery accomplished a crude distillation unit in June 1941. IJA Mancuria oil refinery plant succeeded in production of 92.6 aviation gasoline in September 1944.

Japan occupied Java in 1942. So occupied oil plants of Palembang began export of gasoline to Japan. The export of gasoline increased in 1943. But it decreased again because oil tankers were sunk by US submrines and aircraft in 1944. IJA Iwakuni oil refinery plant began to produce gasoline in 1943. But the plant could not work well because of shortage of imported oil in the end of 1944. The last two oil tanker from the south entered Tokuyama Port on Mar 1945. But 112 B-29s released 500lb bombs of 549t on 10 May 1945. 40% of the bombs hit it and destroyed. IJA had stock of 300kL (1,887bbl) aviation gasoline only in the end of the Pacific War.
Ishii, p216

Domestic sale of oil [ML] Sekiyu-seihin
YearGasolineJet
197224,8711,516
197327,2231,673
198034,5432,967
199044,7833,739
199653,0324,736
199957,2514,639
200058,3724,611
200158,8214,995
200259,8304,603
200360,5614,502
200461,4764,906
200558,4215,129
200660,5525,453
200759,0645,916
200857,4735,676
Domestic comsumption of Gasoline [kbbl] Ishi, p50-51
YearAutoAviation
19314,099296
19325,456314
19335,613387
19345,573391
19357,534428
19367,241557
19378,874714
19387,836969
19396,1051,094
19407,8641,287
19413,1882,223
19422,6423,826
19432,5275,190
19441,4164,776
1945
Apr-Sep
577818

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