Japanese South Pacific Mandate

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The Japanese South Pacific Mandate was a League of Nations mandate under Japanese administration that governed former German colonial islands in Micronesia between World War I and World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf League of Nations mandate
colonial territory
adminCenter Koror
surface form: Koror, Palau

Saipan
surface form: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
administeredBy Imperial Japan
surface form: Empire of Japan
appliesTo former German colonial islands in Micronesia
appliesToJurisdiction South Seas Mandate
capital Koror
Saipan
colonizingPower Imperial Japan
surface form: Empire of Japan
country Japan
surface form: Empire of Japan
endCause defeat of Japan in World War II
establishment of United Nations trust territories
endTime 1947
ethnicGroup Micronesians
surface form: Micronesian peoples
follows German colonial rule in Micronesia
governingBody Nan’yō Government
surface form: Japanese South Seas Government

Nan’yō Government
surface form: Nan'yō Government
grantedBy League of Nations
historicalPeriod World War II
interwar period
includes Caroline Islands
Chuuk State
surface form: Chuuk

Kosrae State
surface form: Kosrae

Mariana Islands
Marshall Islands
Nauru
surface form: Nauru region (initially contested)

Palau
Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
surface form: Pohnpei

Yap Islands
surface form: Yap
languageUsed Japanese
legalForm Class C mandate
locatedIn Micronesia
Pacific Ocean
mandateClass Class C
officialName Nan’yō Chō
surface form: Nan'yō Chō

South Seas Mandate
partOf Japanese colonial empire
League of Nations mandate system
surface form: League of Nations mandates system
predecessor German New Guinea
German colonial empire
surface form: German colonial empire in the Pacific
significantEvent Japanese naval and military buildup in Micronesia
League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission
surface form: League of Nations oversight through Permanent Mandates Commission

fortification of mandated islands before World War II
startTime 1919
post–World War I period
status defunct political entity
successor Territory of New Guinea
surface form: Territory of New Guinea (for some areas under Australian mandate)

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
surface form: United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
usedCurrency Japanese yen

Referenced by (12)

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United Nations Trust Territory precededBy Japanese South Pacific Mandate
Jaluit Atoll wasAdministrativeCenterOf Japanese South Pacific Mandate
this entity surface form: Japanese South Seas Mandate (Marshall Islands)
Jaluit Atoll wasUnderMandateOf Japanese South Pacific Mandate
this entity surface form: League of Nations (Japanese South Seas Mandate)
Maloelap Atoll wasAdministeredBy Japanese South Pacific Mandate
this entity surface form: Empire of Japan under South Seas Mandate
Angaur wasAdministeredBy Japanese South Pacific Mandate
this entity surface form: Japan under South Seas Mandate
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands predecessor Japanese South Pacific Mandate
this entity surface form: Japanese South Seas Mandate
South Seas Mandate officialName Japanese South Pacific Mandate
this entity surface form: South Pacific Mandate
German New Guinea successor Japanese South Pacific Mandate
this entity surface form: South Pacific Mandate
Woleaian people historicalInfluence Japanese South Pacific Mandate
this entity surface form: Japanese South Seas Mandate
TTPI predecessor Japanese South Pacific Mandate
subject surface form: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
this entity surface form: Japanese South Seas Mandate
United Nations Trusteeship Agreement for the Former Japanese Mandated Islands appliesTo Japanese South Pacific Mandate
this entity surface form: Pacific Islands north of the Equator formerly mandated to Japan
Office of the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands replaced Japanese South Pacific Mandate
this entity surface form: Japanese South Seas Mandate administration