The World They Wanted: The Japanese Delegation in the World Youth Forum

dc.contributor.advisorGoble, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorBlake, William
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-04T19:35:24Z
dc.date.available2022-10-04T19:35:24Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-04
dc.description.abstractThis thesis introduces the contribution of Japanese teenage diplomats to the discourse of US-Japan relations in the 1950s. This thesis is focused on young Japanese individuals, and how they chose to represent both themselves and their country in the New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum and the televised debates, The World We Want. I explain how Cold War diplomacy was not exclusively directed by veteran diplomats appointed by elected officials, but also by teenagers who took their opportunity to represent Japan with focus and with intention. My research, based on newspaper articles from the Herald Tribune covering the event, biographies written by the delegates, and the televised debates, emphasizes how the delegates took an active stake in Japan’s post war future while representing Japan on 1950s American television in the process.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/27582
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subject1950sen_US
dc.subjectCold Waren_US
dc.subjecteducational exchangeen_US
dc.subjectJapanen_US
dc.subjecttransnationalen_US
dc.subjectWorld Youth Forumen_US
dc.titleThe World They Wanted: The Japanese Delegation in the World Youth Forum
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of History
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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