Keishōnan Province

Keishōnan-dō (慶尚南道; Korean: 경상남도), 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 under Japanese rule
Capital	Fuzan
History
• Established	29 August 1910
• Disestablished	15 August 1945
Today part of	South Korea

Keishō-nan Provincial Office

Population

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

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

Cities

Emblem of Fuzan

Emblem of Bazan

• Fuzan (부산) (capital)
• Bazan (마산)
• Shinshū (진주)

Counties

• Shin'yō (진주)
• Ginei (의령)
• Kan'an (함안)
• Shōnei (창녕)
• Mitsuyō (밀양)
• Ryōzan (양산)
• Urusan (울산)
• Tōrai (동래)
• Kinkai (김해)
• Shōgen (창원)
• Tōei (통영)
• Kojō (고성)
• Shisen (사천)
• Nankai (남해)
• Katō (하동)
• Sansei (산청)
• Kan'yō (함양)
• Kyōsen (합천)

Provincial governors

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

• Provinces of Korea
• Governor-General of Chōsen
• Administrative divisions of Korea