Mark 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). He has also co-edited several volumes, most recently Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Caprio has published widely on colonial-era issues and on Korea’s wartime and immediate postwar history, addressing topics such as colonial collaboration, the repatriation of Korea-based Japanese and Japan-based Koreans, Korean attitudes toward the Allied trusteeship plan for Korea, and Japan’s role in the Korean War. He has contributed these studies to both academic journals and edited volumes.

He is currently working on a monograph examining overseas Korean efforts during the Pacific War (1941–1945) to gain favor with the Allied powers—the United States, the United Kingdom, Nationalist China, and the Soviet Union.