Bio
Leslie Helm is author of Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan. Helm was born and raised in Yokohama, Japan where his family has lived since 1869. He returned to Tokyo as a correspondent first for Business Week in the early 1980s and later for the Los Angeles Times in the 1990s. He was an Abe Fellow from 1999-2001. Helm has an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is currently editor of Seattle Business Magazine.