Fellows

Charles Burress has written about Japan- related topics for the San Francisco Chronicle, where he was a staff writer for 25 years, and several other publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Japanese Newsweek, International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shimbun, Chuo Koron, Journalism (journal published by the Asahi newspaper company), Japan Times, Winds (JAL magaz ine) and others. He was a visiting researcher in Japan for a total of three years: on a Fulbright scholarship in 1996- 97 at the University of Tokyo, on an Abe Fellowship in 1999- 2000 at the University of Tokyo, and again on a

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.