There still exist communities of Japanese left behind in the places Japan occupied before the war, such as the Republic of Palau, in which the South Pacific Mandate was built, and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (former Toyohara) in Sakhalin.
戦前日本が領有した地域の中では南洋庁が置かれたパラオ共和国や樺太のユジノサハリンスク（旧豊原）に小規模ながら残留日本人の共同体が現存する。