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Otsuba Park, Osaka, Japan, June 2017 As I was doing my fieldwork in Japan I came across something that is referred to as the Sommers Hy...

Do home country national elections matter to emigrants/expatriates who live outside their countries of citizenship? Some countries allow t...

“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” Salman Rushdie,  Imaginary Homelands: Essa...

Some mornings I read some delightful missive in my inbox, and then I put down my coffee, walk over to the nearest wall, and knock my head ag...

Very good post up today on the Isaac Brock Society website.  Eric, who writes from Asia, calls attention to the case of a South Korean pop s...

"And it came to passe in those dayes, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed..." L...

A few weeks ago a blogging confrère left a link to his site Becoming Legally Japanese . I have had a look since and I recommend the site ...

A very nice post up on Ellen Lebelle's blog Thinking Out Loud.  It's called Lost Potential and the perspective is one familiar to m...

From Bloomberg:   IRS Will Shut Last Overseas Taxpayer-Assistance Center . They report that IRS offices in Beijing have already been close...

This survey comes from  Dr. Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels of the University of Kent in Brussels and is meant for Americans and former Amer...

Bonne année 2015 à toutes et à tous! (And please note that the ladies come first always in such salutations :-). It is with both joy a...