Mark E. Caprio

Mark E. Caprio is professor emeritus at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910—1945 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009). Additionally, he has co-edited a number of volumes, the most recent being a volume titled Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). He has also contributed academic articles on colonial-era issues and Korea’s wartime and immediate postwar history that include colonial-era collaboration, Japan-based Korean repatriation, Korean attitudes toward the trusteeship plan that the Allied powers wished to impose on Korea, and Japan’s role in the Korean War to academic journals, as well as to edited volumes. Presently, he is working on a monograph that considers overseas Korean efforts during the Pacific War years (1941-1945) to gain favor with the Allied forces (the US, UK, Nationalist China, and the Soviet Union).