HONOLULU— The Korean War and national division are partially due to Americans’ insistence on a post-World War II trusteeship they did not carefully undertake, a scholar said Tuesday.

Mark Caprio, professor of intercultural communication at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, discussed his research on views toward the Korean Peninsula in the years leading up to its liberation from Japanese control at the end of World War II.

Caprio is the author of Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945, and is working on a new book on U.S. post-war policies toward Korea. He discussed his findings Tuesday at the Center