page_title: List of governors of the Nanpō Islands
hierarchical_section_title: List of governors of the Nanpō Islands
caption_attribution_description: Iwo Jima Historical Map (Poster)
context_page_description: The islands are located to the south of the Japanese home islands.
  The list encompasses the period from the founding of the first permanent settlement of Westerners on the Bonin Islands in 1830, until the return of the islands to Japanese sovereignty in 1968.
context_section_description: 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. The islands are located to the south of the Japanese home islands.
  The list encompasses the period from the founding of the first permanent settlement of Westerners on the Bonin Islands (Chichijima) in 1830 (under the auspices of the British, which claimed the islands in 1827), until the return of the islands to Japanese sovereignty in 1968 (following the U.S. occupation after World War II).
caption: Detailed CMH map of Iwo Jima, October 1944.
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