The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

A cherry tree that was just about to bloom  at Sakura-Shukugawa last Sunday Well, I was going to march over to Osaka castle today and ...

A few days ago Ms. Rebecca Wilkins, executive director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition, wrote an ill-co...

There are a lot of expat/migrant memoirs out there written in the first person singular.  But the "I" they use incessantly (and th...

This is from James and I am posting it here for those of us who are living in northern climes where spring is just the barest promise. Bel...

Seattle, USA - sometime in the 1980s Disco had died and grunge was just getting started.  The socially inept, and those of us pretending t...

Monday, I was a woman with a mission.  Wearing my brand new Asics Fieldwalkers, a friend and I hopped a train out of Umeda station to our ta...

The American Diaspora Tax War continues.  Nearly five years after President Obama signed the HIRE Act and the now infamous Foreign Account T...