Nanyo Kohatsu Kabushiki Kaisha complex

Nanyo Kohatsu Kabushiki Kaisha Administration Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nanyo Kohatsu Kabushiki Kaisha complex Location in Northern Mariana Islands Show map of Northern Mariana Islands Nanyo Kohatsu Kabushiki Kaisha complex Location in Pacific Ocean Show map of Pacific Ocean
Location	San Jose, Northern Mariana Islands
Coordinates	14°58′24″N 145°37′8″E / 14.97333°N 145.61889°E / 14.97333; 145.61889
Area	less than one acre
Built	1930 (1930)
Built by	N.K.K. South Seas Development Co.
NRHP reference No.	81000670, 81000671, 81000672, 81000669 [1]
Added to NRHP	April 16, 1981

The Nan'yō Kōhatsu Kabushiki Kaisha complex was the main support base of the Nan'yō Kōhatsu Kabushiki Kaisha (NKKK) on the island Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands. The NKKK was an economic development company established by the Empire of Japan to develop the territories of the South Seas Mandate, which it oversaw between the First and Second World Wars. In the Northern Marianas, the company aggressively developed arable areas for sugar cane farming, importing workers from Japan, Okinawa, and Korea. Each of the three major islands (Tinian, Saipan, and Rota) had major support facility. On Tinian, this area, now roughly where the island's largest community, San Jose is located on the south coast, consisted of an extensive development, most of which was destroyed during the Battle of Tinian in the Second World War. Of this large complex, only four buildings or structures remain, all of which have been listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places, as rare surviving examples of pre-war Japanese architecture on the islands.^[2]