Governor of the South Seas Mandate

Governor of the South Seas Mandate
南洋諸島知事 Nan'yō shotō chiji
Flag of the governor of the South Seas Mandate
Longest serving Gosuke Yokota 4 April 1923–11 October 1931
Reports to	Prime Minister of Japan (until 1929) Minister of Colonial Affairs (from 1929)
Seat	Koror City
Formation	28 December 1914
First holder	Matsumura Tatsuo
Final holder	Boshirō Hosogaya
Abolished	2 September 1945
Succession	High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

The Governor of the South Seas Mandate (officially known as the Director of the South Sea Agency) was an official who administered the South Seas Mandate, a Class C League of Nations mandate in the Pacific Ocean under the administration of the Empire of Japan, as part of the Japanese colonial empire, 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]