All Post – Leslie Helm

2023Friday, June 16  Rebuilding Community After a Nuclear Meltdown (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Sunday, April 9  Helm Dock: Stone remains point to a hidden legacy in Yokohama (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Monday, January 2  Three Gaijin Letters from Yokohama in the aftermath of WWII (0) (Japan, Stories, World War II) (Helm Brothers, Marianists, St. Joseph, Yokohama) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
2022Wednesday, December 7  Art and Railway: Celebrating the150-year history of railroads in Japan (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Friday, June 3  The Binswangers, Freud and my Jewish Ancestors (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Tuesday, February 15  A letter from Russell Kuefler offers a reader’s perspective on Yokohama Yankee and adoption in Japan. (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
2021Tuesday, October 26  The Double Suicide: A true Japanese ghost story. (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Friday, April 9  Yokohama’s Accidental Visitors (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
2017Tuesday, August 22  My Mother, Born During O’Bon, Always Loved a Party (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, May 13  Barbara Helm in Japan and the Bay Area (2) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Sunday, April 16  Barbara’s Story (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Thursday, April 6  The Golden Bird (1) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Thursday, April 6  Barbara Schinzinger Helm 1924-2017 (5) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
2016Saturday, November 19  Yokohama Photographs of the 1923 Kanto Earthquake by Ranso Wolff (0) (Stories) (flooating crane, Helm Brothers, kanto earthquake, Leslie Helm, south pier, Yokohama Yankee) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, November 12  The Photos of Ranso Tsunoda (nee Wolff) (1) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Wednesday, November 9  Book Tour for Japanese Translation Unearths Treasure Trove of old Photographs (3) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, July 23  Villa Sakura: Freiburg’s Cherry Blossom Castle (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, April 9  Yokohama Yankee’s Japan Book Tour (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, February 13  A Mixed-race American’s experience in Japan and America and his pursuit of a career in cooking. (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Thursday, January 14  Silly Games at a Farewell Party in Yokohama’s Foreign Community in 1963 (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
2015Thursday, December 10  Reviews of Yokohama Yankee in Nikkei and Kyodo Touch On History and Mixed Race Identity. (2) (Stories) (Japan, Japanese history, Japanese reviews, Kyodo News Service, Kyodo Tsushin, Nikkei, Yokohama, Yokohama Yankee) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Thursday, October 22  Pasha, an enterprising Jew who once hosted Albert Einstein in Tokyo, photographs old Japan including Yokohama and Tokyo (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Monday, October 19  So excited to get my first letter from a reader of the Japanese edition. (0) (Featured, Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Monday, September 28  The Japanese translation of Yokohama Yankee is now available (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Tuesday, August 18  Lost (and Found) in Translation (1) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Monday, July 20  Wearing yukata and preparing for obon. (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Tuesday, June 23  July 4th and Fireworks in Japan (2) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Sunday, April 26  The Weapons Bazaar (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Thursday, March 5  Insider/Outsider (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Tuesday, February 17  Kiyofuku Chuma 1935-2014 (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Monday, January 19  Is international adoption really such a terrible thing? (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
2014Monday, December 22  From this ashes of World War II rose this group of Germans, Japanese and Americans who traveled the Japanese countryside and called themselves the “Inubashi” (dog bridge) after the name of a room they once stayed in. (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Monday, December 22  The Tokyo War Crimes Trial (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Monday, December 1  Yokohama Yankee reading at University Bookstore in Seattle (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Thursday, September 25  Yokohama Yankee book talk at Pacific Lutheran University on Saturday, September 27th at 10:30 a.m. (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Friday, September 19  Leslie Helm will be speaking about his book, Yokohama Yankee, at Pacific Lutheran University on September 27th 10:30 a.m. (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Thursday, August 7  The Rise and Fall of Families and Nations (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, July 12  CB Bernard’s prints of early Japan (1) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, July 12  The  charming and artistic CB Bernard (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, June 28  The Importance of Preserving the Present (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Thursday, June 19  New trailer for Yokohama Yankee (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Monday, June 16  Two flyers arrive in Yokohama on their journey around the world. Helm Brothers helps load their plan on the ship for the trip home. (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Tuesday, May 20  Captain Schinzinger and the Avenging Samurai (0) (Featured) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Tuesday, May 20  Captain Albert Joseph Fridolin Schinzinger and the Samurai Avenger (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, May 17  How a little piece of Miyazaki’s magical, curative forest of the future was recreated in a copper pit in Butte Montanta. (2) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, March 29  Margaret (Helm) Stone (2) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Sunday, March 16  The significance of a family crest (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Sunday, February 23  Army Japanese Language School and James Cahill (0) (Featured, Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Sunday, February 23  A Grandfather’s Love (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
2013Friday, December 13  A remarkable story from the 1930s of two men who fall in love, and the mother who adopts her son’s gay lover (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Thursday, November 21  An Exercise in Trying to Understand Great Grandfather Julius (1) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Sunday, November 17  Shinto ceremony to bless Helm Yamate Residences (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, November 16  Talk at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, September 28  Race Exhibit is an Eye-opener (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Friday, September 20  THE “JEWISH CONSULATE” IN JAPAN (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Friday, September 13  The Mazama Festival of Books (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Friday, August 23  Insects, people and families: On the nature of the individual and the group (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Wednesday, August 21  Our memories extend far beyond what we remember and are shaped greatly by our state of mind at any given moment. (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Sunday, August 4  When translating Yokohama Yankee into Japanese, should it be adapted to the sensibilities of the Japanese reader? (4) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Thursday, August 1  Asian Review of Books has some nice things to say (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Tuesday, July 30  Visiting Japan: A tense six talks in five days during which I voyage into the past and. perhaps, into the future. (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Sunday, July 21  My Commencement Speech to the YIS Class of 2013, My 40th Reunion and the 40th anniversary of YIS as a full high school. (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Monday, June 17  Yokohama Yankee Receives Starred Review on Library Journal (1) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, April 6  Hachiojiyama (4) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Sunday, March 17  Family Stories Don’t Just Entertain; They Help Prepare Us For Life (1) (Featured) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, March 9  Identity and Adoption (1) (Featured) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Sunday, February 24  Yokohama Yankee Arrives From Printer (1) (Featured) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Sunday, February 10  Addressing the Body Under the Rug (0) (Featured, Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Sunday, January 27  How Japan Learned to Love Nuclear Power (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Wednesday, January 16  The Death of an Intellectual Giant (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Wednesday, January 16  The Changing Values of Japan’s Generation X (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Wednesday, January 16  A Look at Japan’s Efforts to Discourage Lawsuits (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Wednesday, January 16  Collaborative Research Leads to Suicide (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Wednesday, January 16  An Interview With a Yakuza Boss (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Wednesday, January 16  Accompanying the Prime Minister to Washington D.C. (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Wednesday, January 16  My Story on Contempt for America Raised a Storm of Protest (0) (Stories) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Wednesday, January 16  What’s the Book About? (0) (Featured) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)
Saturday, January 12  The book is finished (0) (Featured) (by yyhelm@gmail.com)