under the terms of a United Nations trusteeship agreement which established the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Most of the islands subsequently became part of independent states. See also Boshirō Hosogaya Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Nanshin-ron (Southern Expansion Doctrine) Structure of the Imperial Japanese forces in the South Seas Mandate Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Citations References Further reading Arnold, Bruce Makoto. "Conflicted Childhoods in the South Seas: The Failure of Racial Assimilation in the Nan'yo". The Tufts Historical Review Vol 4, No. 11 (Spring 2011) Childress, David Hatcher, The Lost City of Lemuria & The Pacific, 1988. Chapter 10 "The Pohnpei Island, in finding of sunken city"(p. 204-229) Cressey George B. Asia's Lands and Peoples, X Chapter: "Natural Basis of Japan" (pp. 196–285), section "South Seas" (p. 276-277).,1946 Annual report to the League of Nations on the administration of the South Sea islands under Japanese Mandate. [Tokyo]: Japanese Government. (Years 1921 to 1938) Tze M. Loo, "Islands for an Anxious Empire: Japan's Pacific Island Mandate", The American Historical Review, Volume 124, Issue 5, December 2019, pp. 1699–1703. . Herbert Rittlinger, Der Masslose Ozean, Stuttgart, Germany, 1939 Sion, Jules. Asie des Moussons, Paris Librarie Armand Colin, (1928) I, 189–266, Chapter X "The Nature of Japan", section XIII "Japanese Colonial Empire" (pp. 294–324), and section IV "Formosa and Southern Islands" (pp. 314–320) Book Asia, Chapter X "Japanese Empire" (pp. 633–716), section "The Japanese Islands in South Seas". External links 1919 establishments in the Japanese colonial empire 1947 disestablishments in Japan 1947 disestablishments in Oceania Former colonies in Oceania Former Japanese colonies History of Micronesia History of Palau History of the Federated States of Micronesia History of the Marshall Islands History of the Northern Mariana Islands League of Nations mandates States and territories disestablished in 1947 States and territories established in 1919 World War II sites