Japanese settlement in the Marshall Islands Japanese settlement in the Marshall Islands Japanese settlement in the Marshall Islands was spurred on by Japanese trade in the Pacific region. The first Japanese explorers arrived in the Marshall Islands in the late 19th century, although permanent settlements were not established until the 1920s. As compared to other Micronesian islands in the South Pacific Mandate, there were fewer Japanese who settled in the islands. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, the Japanese populace were repatriated to Japan, although people of mixed Japanese–Marshallese heritage remained behind. They form a sizeable minority in the Marshall Islands' populace, and are well represented
Marshall Islands High School 1996 the dropout rate was 16%. The current president of the Marshall Islands, Hilda Heine, attended Marshall Islands High School before attending college in the United States. <http://www.rmiembassyus.org/Education.htm> Marshall Islands High School The school serves the following atolls and islands: Majuro, Arno, Enewetak, and Mili. Marshall Islands High School began as Marshall Islands Intermediate School, being established as a high school around the time at which the first class graduated in 1965, a class which numbered 13 students. An addition was built between the late 1960s to the middle of the 1970s, a period when several other public high schools