Place:Nanyo, Yamagata, Japan

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NameNanyo
Alt namesNan'yōsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Nan'yōsource: Wikipedia
Nan-yōsource: Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-119
TypeCity
Coordinates38.067°N 140.1°E
Located inYamagata, Japan
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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The South Seas Mandate, officially the Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean Lying North of the Equator, was a League of 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 Pacific Ocean that had been part of German New Guinea within the German colonial empire until they were occupied by Japan during World War I. Japan governed the islands under the mandate as part of the Japanese colonial empire until World War II, when the United States captured the islands. The islands then became the United Nations–established Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands governed by the United States. The islands are now part of Palau, Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Marshall Islands.

In Japan, the territory is known as and was governed by the .

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