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1940 map of Nauru showing the extent of the phosphate mined lands. Mining operations on Nauru began in 1906, at which time it was part of the German colonial empire. The island had some of the world's largest and highest quality deposits of phosphate, a key component in fertiliser, making it a strategically important resource on which agriculture in Australia and New Zealand depended.
Operation RY was the Imperial Japanese plan to invade and occupy Nauru and Ocean islands in the south Pacific during the Pacific conflict of World War II.The operation was originally set to be executed in May 1942 immediately following Operation MO and before Operation MI, which resulted in the Battle of Midway.
As French Indochina, Japanese occupation of Cambodia: Laos: Raosu (ラオス) September 1940 – August 1945 1,400,000: As French Indochina, Japanese occupation of Laos: Thailand: Tai (タイ) December 8, 1941 – August 15, 1945: 16,216,000: Independent state but allied with Japan Malaysia: Maraya (マラヤ), Kita Boruneo (北ボルネオ ...
Nauruan warrior, 1880. Nauru was settled by Micronesians around 3,000 years ago, and there is evidence of possible Polynesian influence. [1] Nauruans subsisted on coconut and pandanus fruit, and engaged in aquaculture by catching juvenile ibija fish, acclimated them to freshwater conditions, and raised them in Buada Lagoon, providing an additional reliable source of food. [2]
The Japanese built 2 airfields which were bombed for the first time on 25 March 1943, preventing food supplies from being flown to Nauru. [49] The Japanese deported 1,200 Nauruans to work as labourers in the Chuuk Islands, [48] which was also occupied by Japan. As part of the Allied strategy of island hopping from the Pacific islands towards ...
On 29 November 1941, Operation Gi [2] (for Gilbert Islands) was decided within the Japanese 4th Fleet and departed from Truk, headquarters of the South Seas Mandate.The flagship was the minelayer Okinoshima, and the operation included the minelayers Tsugaru and Tenyo Maru and cruiser Tokiwa, Nagata Maru, escorted by Asanagi and Yūnagi of the Destroyer Division 29/Section 1.
The Trust Territory of Nauru (bordered in blue) is number 3. Allied map of Nauru, World War II. This article lists the colonial governors of Nauru , from the establishment of the German colonial presence in 1888 (as part of German New Guinea ), through the Japanese occupation during World War II , until the independence of the Australian ...
Japan's Naval General Staff endorsed Inoue's argument and began planning further operations, using these locations as supporting bases, to seize Nauru, Ocean Island, New Caledonia, Fiji, and Samoa and thereby cut the supply lines between Australia and the U.S., with the goal of reducing or eliminating Australia as a threat to Japanese positions ...