the Governor of the South Seas Mandate, also the Commander-in-Chief of the South Pacific Detachment. He represented the Japanese government and the Imperial...

Nations mandate in the "South Seas" given to the Empire of Japan by the League of Nations following World War I. The mandate consisted of islands in the north...

II Structure of the Imperial Japanese forces in the South Seas Mandate, details on Japanese forces in bypassed islands Jowett, Phillip (2002). The Japanese...

Hirohito, Emperor of Japan: supreme Commander in Chief of Armed Imperial Forces, head of state, and representative of the "Imperial Sun Lineage", State...

Structure of the Imperial Japanese forces in the South Seas Mandate, details on Japanese forces in bypassed islands "Operations Against the Japanese on...

powers' South West Pacific Area (SWPA) command. In the South West Pacific theatre, Japanese forces fought primarily against the forces of the United States...

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji...

Japanese nationalism (Japanese: 日本のナショナリズム, Hepburn: nihonno nashonarizumu) is a form of nationalism that asserts the belief that the Japanese are a monolithic...

total population of the South Seas Mandate was 129,104, of which 77,257 were Japanese. By December 1941, Saipan had a population of more than 30,000 people...

September 1945, bringing the war's hostilities to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) had become incapable of conducting major...