Governor of the South Seas Mandate

League of Nations mandates in the Pacific Ocean. The South Seas Mandate (bordered in orange) is number 1.

Japanese map of the South Seas Mandate in the 1930s.

The seal of the South Seas Mandate.

The emblem 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 ruled 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.

List

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)

No.	Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Notes
Interim Southern Islands Defense Unit
1	28 December 1914 to 6 August 1915		Matsumura Tatsuo, Commander
2	6 August 1915 to 1 December 1916		Tōgō Kichitarō, Commander
3	1 December 1916 to 1 December 1917		Yoshida Masujirō, Commander
4	1 December 1917 to 1 December 1919		Nagata Yasujirō, Commander
5	1 December 1919 to 1 April 1922		Kojūrō Nozaki, Commander
Department of Civil Affairs of the South Sea Agency
6	1 July 1918 to 1 April 1922		Toshiro Tezuka, Director
South Sea Agency
7	1 April 1922 to 4 April 1923		Toshiro Tezuka, Director
8	4 April 1923 to 11 October 1931		Gosuke Yokota, Director
9	12 October 1931 to 21 November 1931		Mitsusada Horiguchi, Director
10	21 November 1931 to 5 February 1932		Kazuo Tawara, Director
11	5 February 1932 to 4 August 1933		Masayuki Matsuda, Director
12	4 August 1933 to 19 September 1936		Hisao Hayashi, Director
13	19 September 1936 to 9 April 1940		Kenjiro Kitajima, Director
14	9 April 1940 to 5 November 1943		Shunsuke Kondo, Director
15	5 November 1943 to 2 September 1945		Boshirō Hosogaya, Director	Nominally to 12 March 1946

See also

• High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

External links

• World Statesmen – Palau