Governor of the South Pacific Mandate

League of Nations mandates in the Pacific Ocean. The South Pacific Mandate (bordered in orange) is number 1.
Japanese map of the South Pacific Mandate in the 1930s.
The seal of the South Pacific Mandate.
The emblem of the South Pacific Mandate.

The Governor of the South Pacific Mandate (officially known as the Director of the South Sea Agency) was an official who ruled the South Pacific Mandate, a League of Nations mandate in the Pacific Ocean under the administration of the Empire of Japan, between 1922 and 1944. The territory consisted of islands awarded to Japan by the League of Nations after World War I, prior to which they had been part of the German colonial empire. During World War II, the United States captured the islands from Japan. After World War II, the United Nations placed the territory under the United States trusteeship as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. The islands are now part of Palau, Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Marshall Islands.[1]

List

The following is a list of the Governors the South Pacific Mandate, as well as their predecessors during the Japanese occupation of the territory between 1914 and 1922.

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure Portrait Incumbent Notes
Interim Southern Islands Defense Unit
28 December 1914 to 6 August 1915Tatsuo Matsumura, Commander
6 August 1915 to 1 December 1916Kichitaro Togo, Commander
1 December 1916 to 1 December 1917Masujiro Yoshida, Commander
1 December 1917 to 1 December 1919Yasujiro Nagata, Commander
1 December 1919 to 1 April 1922Kojuro Nozaki, Commander
Department of Civil Affairs of the South Sea Agency
1 July 1918 to 1 April 1922Toshiro Tezuka, Director
South Sea Agency
1 April 1922 to 4 April 1923Toshiro Tezuka, Director
4 April 1923 to 11 October 1931Gosuke Yokota, Director
12 October 1931 to 21 November 1931Mitsusada Horiguchi, Director
21 November 1931 to 5 February 1932Kazuo Tawara, Director
5 February 1932 to 4 August 1933Masayuki Matsuda, Director
4 August 1933 to 19 September 1936Hisao Hayashi, Director
19 September 1936 to 9 April 1940Kenjiro Kitajima, Director
9 April 1940 to 5 November 1943Shunsuke Kondo, Director
5 November 1943 to 2 February 1944Boshiro Hosokaya, DirectorNominally to 14 August 1945

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1962). Sovereign and Subject, pp. 346-353.
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