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List of governors of the Nanpō Islands

This article lists the governors of the Nanpō Islands (南方諸島, Nanpō-shotō), a collective name for the groups of Japanese islands within Tokyo Metropolis, consisting of the Izu Islands, the Bonin Islands and the Volcano Islands.[1] The islands are located to the south of the Japanese home islands.[2]

Location of the Nanpō Islands (black) in the Pacific Ocean.
Detailed map of the Izu Islands (black).

The list encompasses the period from the founding of the first permanent settlement of Westerners on Chichijima (one of the Bonin Islands) in 1830[3] (under the auspices of the British, which claimed the islands in 1827[4]), until the return of the islands to Japanese sovereignty in 1968 (following the U.S. occupation after World War II).[5][6]

Officeholders

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Source: [7]

† denotes people who died in office.

Westerners' settlement (1830–1862, 1863–1874)

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Chief Islanders

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  • 1830–1848: Matteo (Matthew) Mazarro†
  • 1848–1862, 1863 – 10 April 1874: Nathaniel Savory† (acting to 1853; magistrate 1853–1859)

Japanese suzerainty (1862[8]–1863, 1876[9]–1945)

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Governors

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  • 18 January 1862 – 7 April 1862: Mizuno Chikugo no Kami Tadanori
  • August 1862 – May 1863: Sakunosuke (Sakusuke) Obana

Chief Commissioner

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  • December 1876 – November 1880: Sakunosuke (Sakusuke) Obana

Commanders, Ogasawara Corps

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No. Portrait Commander Took office Left office Time in office Defence branch
1Kuribayashi, TadamichiGeneral
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
栗林 忠道
(1891–1945)
[a]		27 May 1944c. 26 March 1945 †303 days  Imperial Japanese Army
2Tachibana, YoshioLieutenant general
Yoshio Tachibana
立花 芳夫
(1890–1947)
[b]		c. 26 March 194513 December 1945262 days  Imperial Japanese Army

U.S. occupation (1945–1968)

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Military Governors, Bonin, Volcano and Marcus Islands (in Tokyo)

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Military Governors, Bonin Islands (in Pearl Harbor)

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Deputy Military Governors, Bonin – Volcano Islands (on the Marianas; Saipan, then Guam)

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(the Commanders Naval Forces Marianas [to 1956 Commanders Marianas Area])

Officers-in-Charge, Bonin Islands

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Military Government Representatives, Bonin – Volcano Islands

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(Officers-in-Charge, U.S. Naval Facility Chichi Jima, Bonin Islands)

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Commander of the 109th Division; killed in action in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
  2. ^ Commander of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade, 109th Division; assumed the command of the 109th Division upon the death of Kuribayashi.

References

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  1. ^ Ajiro Tatsuhiko and Warita Ikuo, Waga kuni no kōiki na chimei oyobi sono han'i ni tsuite no chōsa kenkyū (The geographical names and those extents of the wide areas in Japan), Kaiyō Jōhōbu Gihō, Vol. 27, 2009.online edition
  2. ^ Yoshida, Reiji (12 July 2018). "Ogasawara Islands: Remote witnesses on the front lines of Japanese history". The Japan Times Online. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  3. ^ Chapman, David (2016). The Bonin Islanders, 1830 to the Present: Narrating Japanese Nationality. London: Routledge. p. 27. ISBN 978-2015049366.
  4. ^ Cholmondeley, Lionel Berners (1915). The History of the Bonin Islands from the Year 1827 to the Year 1876. London: Constable & Co. Ltd. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  5. ^ Agreement between Japan and the United States of America Concerning Nanpo Shoto and Other Islands, 5 April 1968 [1]
  6. ^ Schlueter, Roger (31 July 2015). "U.S. returned hard-won islands to Japan to strengthen ties". Belleville News-Democrat.
  7. ^ "Bonin and Volcano Islands". worldstatesmen.org. B. Cahoon. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  8. ^ Rüegg, Jonas (2017). "Mapping the Forgotten Colony: The Ogasawara Islands and the Tokugawa Pivot to the Pacific". Cross-Currents, vol. 6(2). pp. 440–490. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  9. ^ [2] Language and Citizenship in Japan, edited by Nanette Gottlieb, Chapter 10, p. 176
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