Governor of the South Pacific Mandate

The Governor of the South Pacific Mandate was an official who ruled the Japanese South Pacific Mandate, a mandated territory 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. After World War II the United Nations placed the territory under United States administration 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]

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.

Commanders of Interim Southern Islands Defense Unit

#	Name	From	To
1	Tatsuo Matsumura	December 28, 1914	August 6, 1915
2	Kichitaro Togo	August 6, 1915	December 1, 1916
3	Masujiro Yoshida	December 1, 1916	December 1, 1917
4	Yasujiro Nagata	December 1, 1917	December 1, 1919
5	Kojoro Nozaki	December 1, 1919	April 1, 1922

Head of Civil Affairs Bureau

#	Name	From	To
1	Toshiro Tezuko	July 1, 1918	April 1, 1922

Governors

#	Name	From	To
1	Toshiro Tezuko	April 1, 1922	April 4, 1923
2	Gosuke Yokota	April 4, 1923	October 11, 1931
3	Mitsusada Horiguchi	October 12, 1931	November 21, 1931
4	Kazuo Tawara	November 21, 1931	February 5, 1932
5	Masayuki Matsuda	February 5, 1932	August 4, 1933
6	Hisao Hayashi	August 4, 1933	September 19, 1936
7	Kenjiro Kitajima	September 19, 1936	April 9, 1940
8	Shunsuke Kondo	April 9, 1940	November 5, 1943
9	Boshiro Hosokaya	November 5, 1943	February 2, 1944

See also

• High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

External links

• World Statesmen - Palau

References

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