An official report entitled “A long-team perspective of demand for and production of agricultural products” was approved by the Cabinet Council of the Japanese Government in 1990 and publicized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. In the course of preparation of that report, the following two papers were annexed to it: one was “Technology and Management Index Model in 2000” and the other was “Prospects of Technology Development and its Extension”. The present paper specifically reviews three issues pertaining to the animal production in Japan as follows: a dairy cattle farming model in Hokkaido; a beef cattle fattening farming model in the western region of Japan; and new technologies in prospect for the development of animal industry that is expected to be developed by the year 2000. The report indicates that in 2000, labor requirement per head of milking cow, milk yield, crop yield and total cost of raw milk production in the dairy cattle farming in Hokkaido are expected to be 34, 142, 120-129 and 47% as compared with the present levels. It also indicates that labor requirement per head of cattle, body weight gain per day and total fattening cost in the beef cattle fattening farming in the western region of Japan in 2000 are expected to be 19, 139 and 46% as compared with the present levels. These expectations could be achieved through the full adoption of new technologies to be developed by 2000.