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]
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]
Source: [7]
† denotes people who died in office.
No. | Portrait | Commander | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Defence branch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tadamichi Kuribayashi 栗林 忠道 (1891–1945) [a] | General27 May 1944 | c. 26 March 1945 † | 303 days | Imperial Japanese Army | |
2 | Yoshio Tachibana 立花 芳夫 (1890–1947) [b] | Lieutenant generalc. 26 March 1945 | 13 December 1945 | 262 days | Imperial Japanese Army |
(the Commanders Naval Forces Marianas [to 1956 Commanders Marianas Area])
(Officers-in-Charge, U.S. Naval Facility Chichi Jima, Bonin 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]
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]
Source: [7]
† denotes people who died in office.
No. | Portrait | Commander | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Defence branch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tadamichi Kuribayashi 栗林 忠道 (1891–1945) [a] | General27 May 1944 | c. 26 March 1945 † | 303 days | Imperial Japanese Army | |
2 | Yoshio Tachibana 立花 芳夫 (1890–1947) [b] | Lieutenant generalc. 26 March 1945 | 13 December 1945 | 262 days | Imperial Japanese Army |
(the Commanders Naval Forces Marianas [to 1956 Commanders Marianas Area])
(Officers-in-Charge, U.S. Naval Facility Chichi Jima, Bonin Islands)