Leslie Helm

NEW!! A BOOK TRAILER FOR YOKOHAMA YANKEE BY TY KELLY

NEW IN JAPANESE! Youtube slideshow/video on Yokohama Yankee
Leslie Helm interviewed by Eric Liu on “Seattle Voices” here.

Yokohama Yankee is a marvelous and eloquent work of family history (that) sheds light on the political, economic, cultural, and racial interactions and tensions between Japan and the United States for more than a century and a half, right up to the present day. This is a humane and insightful book that will be read many years from now—James Fallows, the Atlantic, author of China Airborne

A lovely, unsettling family story and a vivid traversal of modern Japanese history that will impress the jaded Japan scholar and inspire the curious general reader or memoir fan—Library Journal

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Featured blog posts:

Captain Schinzinger and the Avenging Samurai
Here’s an odd, but fascinating story that seems to say more about foreign stereotypes of Japan than it does about Japan. My cousin Stefan Schinzinger found it online. It was scanned from the May 15, 1909 issue of Harpers Weekly by Google books. It is about Captain Albert Schinzinger, who was our great, great uncle, […]
Army Japanese Language School and James Cahill
It was sad to learn today of the death of James Cahill, one of the foremost authorities on Chinese Art. It was great, however, to see that the New York Times gave him such a great write up. One thing the Times didn’t mention was that “Jimmy” Cahill, as my parents used to call him, was […]
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