Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) established Syowa Station on East Ongul Island in Lutzow-Holm Bay in January 1957 and an inland station Mizuho in July 1970. These two stations have been the bases for glaciological work of JARE in conjunction with the research at home laboratories. Field activities of JARE are divided into three periods: the exploratory period from 1957 to February 1969 which was terminated with a successful return trip from Syowa Station to the South Pole in the 1968-1969 field season; the second period from 1969 to 1978 is characterized with a systematic glaciological survey of Mizuho Plateau by oversnow traverses and station glaciology at Mizuho Station where ice core drillings were conducted; from 1978 a three-year programme (POLEX-South) is in progress to investigate the air-ice sheet-sea (ice) interactions. Major outcomes in these periods are described briefly with the discovery of meteorities (about 4, 000 specimens) near the Yamato Mountains and the Belgica Mountains. Glaciological research and meteorite research in the south Victoria Land are appended.