Governor of the South Seas Mandate

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, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1962). Sovereign and Subject, pp. 346-353.

List of officeholders The following is a list of the governors the South Seas 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.)

Portrait Name Term of office Took office Left office Time in office 1 Matsumura Tatsuo 28 December 1914 6 August 1915 2 Tōgō Kichitarō 6 August 1915 1 December 1916 3 Yoshida Masujirō 1 December 1916 1 December 1917 year 4 Nagata Yasujirō 1 December 1917 1 December 1919 years 5 Kojūrō Nozaki 1 December 1919 1 April 1922 6 Toshiro Tezuka 1 July 1918 1 April 1922 (6) Toshiro Tezuka 1 April 1922 4 April 1923 7 Gosuke Yokota 4 April 1923 11 October 1931 † – 12 October 1931 21 November 1931 8 21 November 1931 5 February 1932 9 Baron Masayuki Matsuda 5 February 1932 4 August 1933 10 Hisao Hayashi 4 August 1933 19 September 1936 11 Kenjiro Kitajima 19 September 1936 9 April 1940 12 Shunsuke Kondo 9 April 1940 5 November 1943 13 Boshirō Hosogaya 5 November 1943 2 September 1945

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See also High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

External links World Statesmen – Palau

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