Studies on electronic processes in graphite during the last decade in Japan

This paper intends to briefly review the studies on the energy band structure and electron transport properties of graphite which have been performed in Japan mostly during the last decade, say since around 1970. Topics dealt with are the overall band structure calculated on the basis of the combined OPW-TB approximation, topographical research of the Fermi surface, anomalous transport phenomena resulting from the extremely strong electron-phonon coupling, c-axis conduction in connection with the stacking fault structure, new important findings obtained through further detailed investigation of galvano-magnetic effects, and the quantum-limit behaviors under ultrahigh magnetic fields leading to an electronic phase transition.