Mark E Caprio
Biographic Data
| ID | 290831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark E Caprio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark E |
| FAMILY NAME | Caprio |
| SIGNATURE | CAPRIO M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rikkyo University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8889-8403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Hodge–Kozuki Correspondence and Japan's Postwar Revival in "Liberated" Korea
On September 1, 1945, just over two weeks after the Japanese emperor made his famous surrender speech over NHK radio, Lieutenant General Kozuki Yoshio, Commanding Officer of the Seventeenth Japanese Army in Korea, established contact with U.S. Lieutenant General John Hodge, Commanding Officer of the XXIV Corps, remained in Okinawa but soon traveled to Seoul to direct the United States occupation of southern Korea. He had just learned that he woul…
American Involvement in the Jeju April 3 Incident: What the US Did on Jeju Island, written by Heo Ho-joon
Kiji kukka ŭi t’ansaeng: Ilbon i ch’irŭn Han’guk chŏnchaeng (The Birth of a Base State: Japanese Experiences in the Korean War)
Nam Kichŏng ends his manuscript on Japan’s post–Pacific War military resurrection as a “base state” (K. kiji-kukka; J. kichi-kokka), militarized in time for the Korean War and continuing in the present, by identifying Prime Minister Abe Shinzō’s “success” in pushing Japan toward a “normal country” (chŏngsang kukka), one equipped with its own military, as “Japan’s failure which is East Asia’s failure” (451–53).1 Abe eventually failed to “normalize…
August 15 in Tokyo and Seoul: Tragedy and Celebration
August 15 remains an important day in Korean and Japanese cultures for the two peoples, the former commemorating their liberation from colonial rule and the latter lamenting the end of the tragedy that had befallen their nation. On this day in 1945, the emperor declared his country's intention to accept the Allied forces' surrender terms. This date, however, is a myth of sorts as the Koreans were soon after forced into division and further subjug…
Preparing to Fail: Growing North–South Divisions during the Period of Recess in the Joint Commission Meetings
The United States and Soviet Union delegations to the Joint Commission talks ended the initial round of their efforts in May 1946 after but two months of talks designed to guide the creation of a unified Korean government through a process of trusteeship that would last at most five years beyond their helping Koreans form a unified provisional government. At the center of their differences were those over the concept of democracy. Without a share…
Displaced peoples and the continued legacy of the Pacific War: Korean repatriation and the danger element
The battles of the Pacific War formally ended between mid-August and early September, 1945. However, the declarations of peace and surrender ceremonies that occurred during this time did not end informal battles across the Asian continent. Renegade Japanese military personnel refused to lay down their arms and repatriate quietly to their country. Some combed the waters between Japan and Korea in search of returnees attempting to repatriate with f…
(Mis)-Interpretations of the 1943 Cairo Conference: The Cairo Communiqué and Its Legacy among Koreans During and After World War II
In December of 1943, three leaders of the Allied forces gathered in Cairo, Egypt to discuss wartime and postwar issues. The Communiqué that they completed in the last of the four-days of meetings, however, reflected issues related to the postwar fate of the Japanese empire, rather than the wartime issues that had dominated their discussions. The rather obtuse phrase, “in due course,” inserted to qualify the leaders’ promise to deliver Korea its i…
Foreign Friends: Syngman Rhee, American Exceptionalism, and the Division of Korea
It would be hard to argue that there is a person of greater influence—and controversy—over Korea’s first six decades of the twentieth century than Syngman Rhee. It comes as little surprise that historians continue to grapple with his appropriate place in the country’s modern development: Is he to be remembered as an architect of the Republic of Korea (ROK) or as a divider of the Korean peninsula? The contribution of Foreign Friends to this histor…
To Adopt a Small or Large State Mentality: The Iwakura Mission and Japan's Meiji-era Foreign Policy Dilemma
Shortly after the Meiji government assumed administrative responsibilities in 1868, the Iwakura Mission left Japan to circumvent the globe, searching for information on institutions that could centralize a divided archipelago. In so doing, it encountered a world embarking on a new phase of imperial expansion. While the majority of the Mission's participants returned with visions of a large, expansion-oriented Japan, others saw their country's fut…
Investigating Tragedy at Sea – The Ukishima-maru Incident and its Legacy
On August 22, 1945 the Ukushima-maru set sail from the northern Japanese port city of Ōminato with the apparent intention of delivering an undisclosed number of Koreans to Pusan, Korea. The laborers had been both recruited and conscripted for construction work necessary to fortify the naval base that had been strategically located in this remote location decades from the time of the 1905 Russo-Japanese War to monitor ship traffic between the isla…
Occupations of Korea and Japan and the Origins of the Korean Diaspora in Japan
Rival Reputations: Coercion and Credibility in US-North Korea Relations, written by Van Jackson
The Evolution of the South Korean-United States Alliance
Truman, Congress, and Korea: The Politics of America’s First Undeclared War, written by Larry Blomstedt
Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied
Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied examines transwar political, military and social transitions in Japan and various territories that it controlled, including Korea, Borneo, Singapore, Manchuria a
Fighting for the Enemy: Koreans in Japan's War, 1937-1945
Abuse of Modernity: Japanese Biological Determinism and Identity Management in Colonial Korea
Medical researcher Kubo Takeshi’s contributions to professional publications, such as Chōsen igakkai zasshi ( The Korean medical journal ), and more popular magazines, such as Chōsen oyobi Manshū ( Korea and Manchuria ), reflected many of the prejudicial attitudes that Japanese held toward Koreans during the first decade of colonial rule. His scholarship was based on biological determinist thinking, an approach developed by eighteenth-century Eur…
American Foreign Policy and Postwar Reconstruction: Comparing Japan and Iraq
Before invading Iraq, U.S. President George W. Bush offered the successful Japanese occupation as evidence that the United States had the capacity to deliver democracy to the Iraqi people (p. 1). Jeff Bridoux examines these two cases studies, the successful occupation of Japan and the failed occupation of Iraq, to determine factors that sway the outcomes of postwar reconstruction. He develops his arguments around three fundamental questions: “Wha…
The Eagle has Landed: Groping for a Korean Role in the Pacific War
The first Americans to arrive in Korea following Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II brought with them a quartet of Korean soldiers that U.S. officials had recruited for the Eagle Project, the most ambitious American effort to use Koreans in the Pacific War that punctuated a long wartime effort to enlist Allied diplomatic and military support for overseas Koreans. In response, U.S. officials had insisted that Korean exiles in the United …
Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy
Yumi Moon. Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910
Journal Article Yumi Moon. Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910. Get access Yumi Moon. Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2013. Pp. xiii, 296. $45.00. Mark E. Caprio Mark E. Caprio Rikkyo University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American …
The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea
It is inevitable that even after his death Park [Chung Hee] lived on as either a hero or a villain in South Korea’s politics” (p. 629), or so writes Byung-Kook Kim in his conclusion to this massiv
Stories from Beyond the Grave: Investigating Japanese Burial Grounds in North Korea
The ravages of World War II and its aftermath in both Europe and Asia provoked one of the most extensive human migrations hitherto witnessed in world history as refugees scurried to escape the destruction. After the guns of war had been silenced and peace restored, these displaced peoples either by choice or force embarked on a long, and often dangerous, journey back to their homelands. Hundreds of thousands of these refugees, many further fleein…
Neo-Nationalist Interpretations of Japan's Annexation of Korea: The Colonization Debate in Japan and South Korea
This is the first in what we hope will be a continuing series of articles on the one hundredth anniversarch of Japan's annexation or colonization of Korea and the subsequent colonial experience. The coordinators. Did in Meiji 43 [1910] Japan annex Korea, the Empire of Korea (J. Daikan teikoku, K.Taehan cheguk)? Do you call this Japan's colonizing the Empire of Korea? If so, [Mr. Education Minister], I would like to ask, is Scotland an English col…
The Cold War Explodes in Kobe: The 1948 Korean Ethnic School 'Riots' and US Occupation Authorities
In March and April 1948 Koreans across Japan rose up in protest after the Japanese government began to enforce an order handed down to them by the American Occupation administration to close Korean ethnic schools. One such protest took place in Kobe on April 24 when Koreans stormed the Hyogo Prefecture offices in an attempt to get the governor to rescind the order to close the four Korean ethnic schools in the prefecture. American and Japanese ad…
Loyal Patriot? Traitorous Collaborator? The Yun Ch'iho Diaries and the Question of National Loyalty
Loyal Patriot? Traitorous Collaborator?The Yun Chiho Diaries and the Question of National Loyalty Mark E. Caprio In August 2004 Republic of Korea (South Korea) President Roh Moo Hyun called for the creation of a parliamentary commission to identify Koreans who had collaborated with Japan during its thirty-six years of colonial occupation of the Korean peninsula. The crimes of these collaborators, Roh explained, constituted “[a]cts of betrayal in …
The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea
It is inevitable that even after his death Park [Chung Hee] lived on as either a hero or a villain in South Korea’s politics” (p. 629), or so writes Byung-Kook Kim in his conclusion to this massiv
The Eagle has Landed: Groping for a Korean Role in the Pacific War
The first Americans to arrive in Korea following Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II brought with them a quartet of Korean soldiers that U.S. officials had recruited for the Eagle Project, the most ambitious American effort to use Koreans in the Pacific War that punctuated a long wartime effort to enlist Allied diplomatic and military support for overseas Koreans. In response, U.S. officials had insisted that Korean exiles in the United …
Loyal Patriot? Traitorous Collaborator? The Yun Ch'iho Diaries and the Question of National Loyalty
Loyal Patriot? Traitorous Collaborator?The Yun Chiho Diaries and the Question of National Loyalty Mark E. Caprio In August 2004 Republic of Korea (South Korea) President Roh Moo Hyun called for the creation of a parliamentary commission to identify Koreans who had collaborated with Japan during its thirty-six years of colonial occupation of the Korean peninsula. The crimes of these collaborators, Roh explained, constituted “[a]cts of betrayal in …
Democracy in Occupied Japan: The U. S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society
Introduction. The U.S. Occupation of Japan: A Secondary Affair: Innovation, Continuity and Compromise Mark E. Caprio & Yoneyuki Sugita 1. Feeding the Nation: Food Policy, Land Reform, and Japan's Economic Recovery Steven J. Fuchs 2. Occupation Policy and Japanese Fisheries Management, 1945-1952 Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu 3. Protective Labor Legislation and Gender Equality: The Impact of the Occupation on Japanese Working Women Maho Toyoda 4. The Impa…
The Cold War Explodes in Kobe-"The 1948 Korean Ethnic School "Riots" and US Occupation Authorities
In March and April 1948 Koreans across Japan rose up in protest after the Japanese government began to enforce an order handed down to them by the American Occupation administration to close Korean ethnic schools. One such protest took place in Kobe on April 24 when Koreans stormed the Hyogo Prefecture offices in an attempt to get the governor to rescind the order to close the four Korean ethnic schools in the prefecture. American and Japanese ad…
Occupations of Korea and Japan and the Origins of the Korean Diaspora in Japan
Japan's unequivocal surrender to allied forces marked at once the conclusion of World War as well as the independence of Koreans throughout the empire in their national assertion. However, postwar political and economic circumstances discouraged an estimated 600,000 Koreans in Japan from repatriating. The arrival of ill-prepared allied occupation forces compounded the situation. An indeterminable number of Koreans smuggled their way back into Jap…
Japanese Narratives on Life in Late-Colonial Korea: From Wartime to Repatriation
Legacies of Empire and Occupation: The Making of the Korean Diaspora in Japan
The August 15, 1945 announcement by the Japanese Emperor declaring Japan's intention to accept the Allied forces' terms of unconditional surrender sent Koreans throughout the empire into the streets in celebration. For the first time in decades they could freely associate with their fellow countrymen, communicate in their native language, and wave their national flag (taegeukgi) as Koreans without fear of punishment.[1
New Interpretations of Japan’s Annexation of Korea: A Conservative Agenda Groping for “Normalcy”
For the past three decades Japan’s conservative contingent has endeavored to rescue Japanese history from those who insist that Japan’s national narrative retain its more shameful elements. Arguments put forth by its supporters have surfaced in numerous monographs, textbooks, and other media outlets. This paper examines a similar effort that exploits the Internet, and specifically You Tube , as a medium of instruction designed to influence Japane…
Plausible Denial? Reviewing the Evidence of DPRK Culpability for the Cheonan Warship Incident
The five-page “Investigative Result on the Sinking of ROKS Cheonan” (hereafter “Investigative Result”) released by the Joint Investigative Group on May 20, just over two months after the sinking of the Republic of Korea (ROK or South Korea) warship Cheonan that killed 46 sailors, minced few words in blaming the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) for the catastrophe. “The Cheonan was sunk as the result of an underwater exp…
Marketing Assimilation: The Press and the Formation of the Japanese-Korean Colonial Relationship
With the August 1910 annexation of Korea, the Japanese initiated efforts to redefine their relationship with their new colonial subjects. To this end Seoul’s trilingual media served as an indispensible agency to inform the peninsula’s residents of Japan’s colonial policy and to suggest ways for its development. From the start the Japanese administration clearly advertised its policy as assimilation and used the media to market a new Japanese-Kore…
Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945
Western Assimilation Practices2. Japan's Development of Internal and Peripheral Assimilation3. Forming Korean Assimilation Policy4. Post-March First Policy Reform and Assimilation5. Radical Assimilation under Wartime Conditions6. Korean Critiques of Japanese Assimilation PolicyConclusion: Evaluating Peripheral Colonization Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
"Neglected Questions on the "Forgotten War: South Korea and the United States on the Eve of the Korean War
The breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s prodded open the archival doors of once closed regimes releasing interesting information on Soviet-North Korean-Chinese relations during the Cold War. Documents released from these archives contributed new evidence to enrich our understanding of old questions. One such question concerns the origins of the Korean War. Documents from these archives demonstrate an active correspondence between the t…
Neo-Nationalist Interpretations of Japan's Annexation of Korea: The Colonization Debate in Japan and South Korea
This is the first in what we hope will be a continuing series of articles on the one hundredth anniversarch of Japan's annexation or colonization of Korea and the subsequent colonial experience. The coordinators. Did in Meiji 43 [1910] Japan annex Korea, the Empire of Korea (J. Daikan teikoku, K.Taehan cheguk)? Do you call this Japan's colonizing the Empire of Korea? If so, [Mr. Education Minister], I would like to ask, is Scotland an English col…
The Cold War Explodes in Kobe: The 1948 Korean Ethnic School 'Riots' and US Occupation Authorities
In March and April 1948 Koreans across Japan rose up in protest after the Japanese government began to enforce an order handed down to them by the American Occupation administration to close Korean ethnic schools. One such protest took place in Kobe on April 24 when Koreans stormed the Hyogo Prefecture offices in an attempt to get the governor to rescind the order to close the four Korean ethnic schools in the prefecture. American and Japanese ad…
Fighting for the Enemy: Koreans in Japan's War, 1937-1945
Abuse of Modernity: Japanese Biological Determinism and Identity Management in Colonial Korea
Medical researcher Kubo Takeshi’s contributions to professional publications, such as Chōsen igakkai zasshi ( The Korean medical journal ), and more popular magazines, such as Chōsen oyobi Manshū ( Korea and Manchuria ), reflected many of the prejudicial attitudes that Japanese held toward Koreans during the first decade of colonial rule. His scholarship was based on biological determinist thinking, an approach developed by eighteenth-century Eur…
American Foreign Policy and Postwar Reconstruction: Comparing Japan and Iraq
Before invading Iraq, U.S. President George W. Bush offered the successful Japanese occupation as evidence that the United States had the capacity to deliver democracy to the Iraqi people (p. 1). Jeff Bridoux examines these two cases studies, the successful occupation of Japan and the failed occupation of Iraq, to determine factors that sway the outcomes of postwar reconstruction. He develops his arguments around three fundamental questions: “Wha…
The Eagle has Landed: Groping for a Korean Role in the Pacific War
The first Americans to arrive in Korea following Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II brought with them a quartet of Korean soldiers that U.S. officials had recruited for the Eagle Project, the most ambitious American effort to use Koreans in the Pacific War that punctuated a long wartime effort to enlist Allied diplomatic and military support for overseas Koreans. In response, U.S. officials had insisted that Korean exiles in the United …
Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy
Yumi Moon. Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910
Journal Article Yumi Moon. Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910. Get access Yumi Moon. Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2013. Pp. xiii, 296. $45.00. Mark E. Caprio Mark E. Caprio Rikkyo University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American …
The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea
It is inevitable that even after his death Park [Chung Hee] lived on as either a hero or a villain in South Korea’s politics” (p. 629), or so writes Byung-Kook Kim in his conclusion to this massiv
Stories from Beyond the Grave: Investigating Japanese Burial Grounds in North Korea
The ravages of World War II and its aftermath in both Europe and Asia provoked one of the most extensive human migrations hitherto witnessed in world history as refugees scurried to escape the destruction. After the guns of war had been silenced and peace restored, these displaced peoples either by choice or force embarked on a long, and often dangerous, journey back to their homelands. Hundreds of thousands of these refugees, many further fleein…
Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied
Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied examines transwar political, military and social transitions in Japan and various territories that it controlled, including Korea, Borneo, Singapore, Manchuria a
Truman, Congress, and Korea: The Politics of America’s First Undeclared War, written by Larry Blomstedt
Investigating Tragedy at Sea – The Ukishima-maru Incident and its Legacy
On August 22, 1945 the Ukushima-maru set sail from the northern Japanese port city of Ōminato with the apparent intention of delivering an undisclosed number of Koreans to Pusan, Korea. The laborers had been both recruited and conscripted for construction work necessary to fortify the naval base that had been strategically located in this remote location decades from the time of the 1905 Russo-Japanese War to monitor ship traffic between the isla…
Occupations of Korea and Japan and the Origins of the Korean Diaspora in Japan
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