Keishō-nan Prefecture

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Keishō-nan Prefecture
慶尚南道
Prefecture of Korea
Keishō-nan Prefecture (August 15, 1945).png
CapitalFuzan
Today part ofSouth Korea
Keishō-nan Provincial Office

Keishō-nan Prefecture (慶尚南道, Keishō-nan-dō) was one of the administrative divisions of Korea during Japanese rule, with its capital at Fuzan. The prefecture consisted of modern-day South Gyeongsang, South Korea.

Population[]

Year Population
1925 1,938,001
1930 2,045,113
1940 2,147,602
1944 2,318,146

Number of people by nationality according to the 1936 census:

  • Overall population: 2,214,406 people
    • Japanese: 96,926 people
    • Koreans: 2,115,553 people
    • Other: 1,927 people

Administrative divisions[]

The following list is based on the administrative divisions of 1945:

Cities[]

Counties[]

Provincial governors[]

The following people were provincial ministers before August 1919. This was then changed to the title of governor.

Nationality Name Name in hanja Start of tenure End of tenure Notes
Japanese Kagawa Teru 香川 輝 October 1, 1910 February 14, 1913 Provincial minister
Japanese Sasaki Tōtarō 佐々木 藤太郎 February 14, 1913 December 26, 1921 Provincial minister before August 1919
Japanese Sawada Toyotake 沢田 豊丈 December 26, 1921 February 24, 1923
Japanese Wada Jun 和田 純 February 24, 1923 January 31, 1928
Japanese Mizuguchi Ryūzō 水口 隆三 January 31, 1928 January 21, 1929
Japanese Sudō Moto 須藤 素 January 21, 1929 November 28, 1929
Japanese Tani Takima 谷 多喜磨 November 28, 1929 December 24, 1930
Japanese Watanabe Toyohiko 渡辺 豊日子 December 24, 1930 August 4, 1933
Japanese Sekimizu Takeshi 関水 武 August 4, 1933 April 1, 1935
Japanese Hashi Morisada 土師 盛貞 April 1, 1935 May 26, 1937
Japanese Abe Senichi 阿部 千一 May 26, 1937 September 10, 1938
Japanese Yamazawa Wasaburō 山沢 和三郎 September 10, 1938 November 19, 1941
Japanese Nishioka Yoshijirō 西岡 芳次郎 November 19, 1941 March 27, 1943
Japanese Ōno Sueo 大野 季夫 March 27, 1943 March 28, 1945
Japanese Nobuhara Satoru 信原 聖 March 28, 1945 August 15, 1945 Korean independence

See also[]

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