Japanese Mandate for the Governance of the South Seas Islands | |||||||||
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| 1920–1945 | |||||||||
 1921 National Geographic: a map showing areas of political control in the Pacific. One area is described as the "Japanese Mandate". | |||||||||
| Status | Mandate of the League of Nations (colony) under Japanese administration | ||||||||
| Capital | Koror City | ||||||||
| Common languages | Japanese (official) Austronesian languages | ||||||||
| Emperor | |||||||||
• 1914–1926 | Taishō (Yoshihito) | ||||||||
• 1926–1946 | Shōwa (Hirohito) | ||||||||
| Director | |||||||||
• 1919–1923 (first) | Toshiro Tezuka | ||||||||
• 1943–1946 (last) | Boshirō Hosogaya | ||||||||
| Historical era | Empire of Japan | ||||||||
| 28 June 1919 | |||||||||
| 18 July 1947 | |||||||||
| Currency | Yen, Oceanian Pound | ||||||||
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| Today part of | |||||||||
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The South Seas Mandate, officially the Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean Lying North of the Equator,[2] was a League of Nations mandate in the "South Seas" given to the Empire of Japan by the League of Nations following World War I. The mandate consisted of islands in the north Pacific Ocean that had been part of German New Guinea within the German colonial empire until they were occupied by Japan during World War I. Japan governed the islands under the mandate as part of the Japanese colonial empire until World War II, when the United States captured the islands. The islands then became the United Nations-established Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands governed by the United States. The islands are now part of Palau, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.[3]
In Japan, the territory is known as "Japanese Mandate for the Governance of the South Seas Islands" (委任統治地域南洋群島, Inin Tōchi-ryō Nan'yō Guntō)[4] and was governed by the Nan'yō Government (南洋廳, Nan'yō-chō).
- ^ 委任統治地域南洋群島事情. 大正14年度《委任統治地域南洋群島事情》, Taishō 14 years, Nan'yō Government publication, Japanese National Assembly Library owns. 南洋庁. 30 September 2010 [1st pub. 1926]. pp. 1–117. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ^ Hall, H. Duncan. Mandates, Dependencies and Trusteeship (1948), p. 307
- ^ Ponsonby-Fane 1962, pp. 346–353.
- ^ 南洋協会 (1926). "大正14年度《委任統治地域南洋群島事情》, Taishō 14 years, Nan'yō Government publication, Japanese National Assembly Library owns". 大正14年度 (大正15). 南洋庁: 1–117. doi:10.11501/1170286. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
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