Islander schools become Nan’yō-chō public schools (kōgakkō); the system has 17 schools and 2,500 pupils by 1922.

What happened

The island schools that the navy had opened since 1915 were renamed kōgakkō. They offered three years of schooling, with a two-year supplementary course at the larger centers, and spent half of class time on the Japanese language. Japanese children attended separate schools that followed the home-country curriculum.