{"id":30950,"date":"2013-05-11T21:16:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T21:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30950"},"modified":"2016-09-07T01:43:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T01:43:06","slug":"%e2%80%98yokohama-yankee%e2%80%99-a-family%e2%80%99s-lineage-in-both-japan-and-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30950","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Yokohama Yankee\u2019: a family\u2019s lineage in both Japan and America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/avantgo\/2020654321.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Yokohama Yankee\u2019: a family\u2019s lineage in both Japan and America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Seattle Times Books<\/a><br \/>\n2013-04-01<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Takami<\/strong>, Special to The Seattle Times<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=30697\" target=\"_blank\">Yokohama Yankee: My Family\u2019s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan<\/a>\u2019 by Leslie Helm Chin Music Press, 360 pp.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lesliehelm.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leslie Helm\u2019s<\/a> remarkable family memoir begins at a point of personal distress. At a memorial for his father in 1991, he feels conflicted about his relationship with his father and memories of his childhood. A few weeks later, Helm and his wife decide to adopt a Japanese child. This momentous prospect triggers unease about his lifelong ambivalence toward Japan and prompts him to explore his family\u2019s long history in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Now a Seattle resident and editor of <em>Seattle Business<\/em> magazine, Leslie Helm is bilingual in Japanese and has worked as a journalist in Japan for <em>Business Week<\/em> and the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Helm\u2019s great grandfather, Julius Helm, traveled from his native Germany to Japan in 1869 near the start of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meiji_Restoration\" target=\"_blank\">Meiji Restoration<\/a> when the country was emerging from 200 years of feudalism and self-imposed isolation. Reformers were eager to modernize Japan and looked to Western Europe and America for guidance. Helm helped upgrade the Japanese military and subsequently built a successful stevedoring business that thrived for more than half a century in the port city of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yokohama\" target=\"_blank\">Yokohama<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/avantgo\/2020654321.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Yokohama Yankee\u2019: a family\u2019s lineage in both Japan and America The Seattle Times Books 2013-04-01 David Takami, Special to The Seattle Times \u2018Yokohama Yankee: My Family\u2019s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan\u2019 by Leslie Helm Chin Music Press, 360 pp. Leslie Helm\u2019s remarkable family memoir begins at a point of personal distress. 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