Keishōnan-dō (慶尚南道, Korean경상남도), alternatively Keishōnan Province or South Keishō Province, was a province of Korea under Japanese rule. Its capital was Fuzan (Busan). The province consisted of modern-day South Gyeongsang, South Korea.

Keishōnan-dō
慶尚南道
Former province of Korea, Empire of Japan

CapitalFuzan
History 
• Established
29 August 1910
• Disestablished
15 August 1945
Today part ofSouth Korea
Keishō-nan Provincial Office

Population

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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

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

Cities

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Emblem of Fuzan
 
Emblem of Bazan

Counties

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Provincial governors

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

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

See also

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