The American Naval Attache at Tokyo referred to several not specified source when he wrote that the total Japanese naval oil storage was estimated to be at least 3,330,000 tons. The total Japanese oil stocks were estimated to be between 6,000,000 (reliable Dutch source in close touch with the Japanese estimated cruel oil storage but admitted it could be under estimated) and 10,786,000. He believed that the latter figure (British estimate in December 1940) was to be more nearly correct. The Dutch source mentioned a present annual consumption of around 5,000,000 tons of crude oil and 940,000 tons of gasoline.
Except for Bako, Chinkai, Kure, Maizuru, Ominato, Port Arthur, Sasebo, Tokuyama and Yokosuka were several places where unknown quantities of naval fuel oil and gasoline were stored: Shumushi (Chishima), Otomari (Karafuto), Akkeshi and Wakkanai (Hokkaido), Toba (Mie Prefecture), Oshima (near Sasebo). Kagoshma (Kagoshima Prefecture), Sashiki, Futami (Chichijima), Truk, Ponape, Jaluit, Hainan Island and Chinnapo, Eik and Takeshiki (all 3 Chosen).
Source
National Archives USA. Record Group 38: Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Series: Secret Naval Attaches Reports. Report dated Naval Attache at Tokyo dated 27 June 1941 No. 71/602-1000. M975-002.
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