South Pacific Mandate
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The South Pacific Mandate refers to a group of islands in Micronesia. administrative control of certain island territories passed to Japan after World War I. Because of Japanese actions taken against possessions of the German Empire, Japan was given a League of Nations Mandate, covering the Carolines, Marianas, Marshall Islands and Palau groups) — excepting Guam, remaining in U. S. control. Controlled passed to Japan from 1918-19. The capital was Koror, in the Palau islands. More important, militarily, industrially and as a centre of Japanese settlement was Saipan, in the Marianas archipelago, captured from Germany in 1914. The other important island was Truk (now Chuuk), an atoll in the Carolines archipelago. This was considered the Southern Gibraltar of the Japanese Navy.
The population figures were around 50,000 natives (mostly Kanaks and Chamorros). The total grew to 70,000 inhabitants in 1930 and more than 80,000 in 1933, with the arrival of Japanese settlers (at one time 30,000 in a year) and by 1938 the total was 121,128 inhabitants, 70,141 of those being Japanese subjects.
This Japanese political entity was run by Imperial Japanese Navy chiefs in administrative, security, economic,and other aspects. Governors tended to be admirals or vice Admirals. these lands produced much sugar cane (raw or processed), bananas, pineapples, taro, coconuts, and other tropical farming products at pair of Taiwan province, another Japanese Navy territory. Other interesting and curious products why are extracted in great quantities are platinum bars and lamines, suppose of ancients indigenous treasures and submerged sarcophagus, and much pearls before at war during 30s decade, but these extractions stopped with loss of these islands.
In the area exists more sources of Phosphates for farming in Augaur island why produced ones 60,000 anual tonnes,and Aluminiun(Bauxite) yaciments, but only Palau group. (The unique founts in Japanese empire, apart of Manchu land sources), additionally from this proceeded much fishing products for your aboundant fisheries in waters surround these islands. these islands poses regular flight links provided for long range seaplanes Kawanishi H6K2-L ("Mavis") of Dai Nippon Koku KK (Imperial Japanese Airways), which connected this provinces with metropolitan Japan, and regular services of the N.Y.K. local boat line. about japanese sendings of Platinum, why shuch quantity of these element, why inmediatelly displaced at tapioca, copra, Sago, vanilla, pearls and others local products and other foreing inform mentioned why having one great augment of Japanese sendings of precious metals from Carolines before at war during 30s years and this inusual augment, reflected in economical markets in these times.
Japanese archeologists and other historian experts sent for orders of Japanese Navy ideologist of Strike South Group ,for realizing the most detailed historic and archeological works in Nan Madol ruins area in Ponape(Pohnpei) and Lele in Kosrae (Kusrae) island and other sectors in Carolines group, for finding others evidences about the South ancestors of Japanese Empire. These were lost during fighting or USAAF Allied bombing of mainland Japan. These experts encountered giant human bones, a femur of 3 meters of long between others, and strange writings on wood and other archeological evidences in your research findings.
Before at war, the Japanese Navy began the construction of various airfields, fortifications, ports, etc in these area, and precisely from Palau, Carolines and Marshall islands arrived part of the Japanese Navy invasion groups who disembarked in Philippines, New Guinea, Nauru and Gilberts islands during 1941-42 in Pacific War times.
These islands are one important Submarine and armed long-range hidroplanes of Japanese Navy, but in certain areas how Marianas existing somes Japanese Army air and land detachments too. in these island(marshall,Palau,Carolines)Japanese Navy during wartimes committed certain war crimes too(see War Crimes in the Pacific )One legend of the inter-war period concerns Amelia Earhart, the pilot, supposed lost in 1937 over th Pacific. It has been suggested that she crashed in the South Pacific Mandate zone, and was captured by the Japanese authorities. This has never been confirmed.
These island groups were lost to Japan during 1943-45 during fights against US Navy units. For history after 1944 see Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
