{"id":30697,"date":"2013-04-28T20:55:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T20:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30697"},"modified":"2017-03-12T22:14:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T22:14:01","slug":"yokohama-yankee-my-family%e2%80%99s-five-generations-as-outsiders-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30697","title":{"rendered":"Yokohama Yankee: My Family\u2019s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/store.chinmusicpress.com\/product\/new-orleans-bicycles\" target=\"_blank\">Yokohama Yankee: My Family\u2019s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinmusicpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Chin Music Press<\/a><br \/>\nMarch 2013<br \/>\n320 pages<br \/>\nTrade Paper ISBN: 978-0-9844576-6-3<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lesliehelm.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leslie Helm<\/a><\/strong>, Author, also Editor<br \/>\n<em>Seattle Business Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/store.chinmusicpress.com\/product\/new-orleans-bicycles\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinmusicpress.com\/images\/yy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leslie Helm\u2019s decision to adopt Japanese children launches him on a personal journey through his family\u2019s 140 years in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a>, beginning with his German great grandfather, who worked as a military adviser in 1870 and defied custom to marry his Japanese mistress. The family\u2019s poignant experiences of love and war help Helm learn to embrace his Japanese and American heritage.<\/p>\n<p><em>Yokohama Yankee<\/em> is the first book to look at Japan across five generations with perspective that is both from the inside and through foreign eyes. Helm draws on his great grandfather\u2019s unpublished memoir and a wealth of primary source material to bring his family history to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Helm\u2019s decision to adopt Japanese children launches him on a personal journey through his family\u2019s 140 years in Japan, beginning with his German great grandfather, who worked as a military adviser in 1870 and defied custom to marry his Japanese mistress. The family\u2019s poignant experiences of love and war help Helm learn to embrace his Japanese and American heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1245,11,459,17],"tags":[14550,1793,14551],"class_list":["post-30697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-monographs","tag-chin-music-press","tag-japan","tag-leslie-helm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52387,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30697\/revisions\/52387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}