Letters From Japan

Letters from Japan takes readers on the author's year-long journey as an American scientist fully immersed in the culture of pre-Westernized, post-WWII Japan.

Unlike most Americans in 1950s Japan, Jeffries Wyman was visiting for scientific and artistic rather than military purposes. From wearing traditional Japanese attire to advancing his skills in calligraphy and watercolor painting, he embraced the culture of a country that truly welcomed him, from the lowliest peasants to the Emperor himself—a country where he had a scientific epiphany in a tea garden that would define the new and still current field of allosteric biochemistry.

Through these letters, sent to his two children whom he left behind in the care of extended family upon the death of their mother, readers follow a travelogue of Jeffries Wyman’s adventures. From the streets of Tokyo to remote mountain villages, the letters are filled with surprises, entertaining and sometimes shocking, pioneering a genre of travel writing with its authenticity and fresh approach to exotic lands.

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