The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

First of all, many MANY thank to Nezumi-san who saw the previous post about my struggle with my appliances and left translations of the cont...

I landed in Osaka this weekend and so far it's been a lesson in humility.  Got off the airplane so jet-lagged I was ill and entered a wo...

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

My personal reaction to the events that rocked the Hexagon recently has been to avoid the media reports domestic (France) or foreign (the US...

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

Good link was posted up on Allison Christian's blog (Tax, Society and Culture) today:    Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Pov...

Late this morning I was at the American church and as I and a friend were walking out on the way to lunch, the staff at the church gave us t...