An Evaluation of Japanese Agricultural and Fishery Developments in Micronesia, During the Japanese Mandate, 1914 to 1941

Nisui, Midori (1968). "An Evaluation of Japanese Agricultural and Fishery Developments in Micronesia, During the Japanese Mandate, 1914 to 1941". Micronesica. Mangilao, GU: University of Guam. 4 (1): 1–18. ISSN 2374-801X.

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Abstract: Nisui evaluates Japanese colonial development during the mandate period, emphasizing the scale and organization of agricultural and fishery expansion and the degree to which these changes reshaped Micronesian economies; describes coordinated planning by the Nanyo Cho and private firms, especially the South Seas Development Company, to create export-oriented production systems built around sugar, copra, introduced crops, livestock, and industrialized fisheries; highlights infrastructure, technical training, subsidies, settlement schemes, and research support that encouraged both agricultural intensification and large-scale bonito and tuna enterprises; notes that native populations participated as laborers, small producers, and local officials and received some material benefits, though the system remained oriented toward imperial goals; contrasts Japanese-era economic dynamism with later reversion toward subsistence conditions under American administration; and concludes that the success of the Japanese system rested on coordinated planning, capital investment, and institutional support that later development approaches did not match.