sentences:  Matsue resigned as president in 1940, and was succeeded by Tokuichi Kuribayashi, an entrepreneur who had established several pearl fisheries in Southeast Asia and on the coast of Western Australia.During the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, "Nan'yō Kōhatsu" continued to expand its operations, and received several projects from the Imperial Japanese Navy to assist in the administration of the occupied territories.In Sulawesi, for example, the company was responsible for the overseeing the collection and distribution of rice.