Nanʻyō

Nanʻyō tells the story of Japan's rule over the Micronesian islands in the Pacific, a region it governed as a colonial power for roughly three decades. Mark R. Peattie, who has spent his career studying the Japanese empire, approaches the subject as an account of how colonial administration worked, not only as a record of military campaigns and diplomacy.

The book looks closely at the colonial governments that ran the islands and at Japan's place among the few non-Western powers to build an overseas empire. Its wider significance lies in how it shows the Pacific Islands within global imperial history.

The book will interest specialists in Pacific history and the Japanese empire, as well as readers curious about how colonial rule operated outside the Western world.