The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

Greenback, a US Expat tax service, has opened their 2017 survey of Americans abroad.  Full disclosure, I am one of their clients.  I like th...

The local weather has really wreaked havoc with the annual cherry blossom season.  We had one beautiful day at the very beginning when the t...

There are books that make me want to ask for my dissertation back so I can cite them and add to my bibliography. Redefining Japaneseness:  J...

Yet another email that asks, "Why do they [migrants/expats] stay?"  That's a deceptively simple question that never has an an...

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

When I was still drinking like a fish and smoking like a chimney, I played this little game with myself.  I'd look around me and found p...

Today's post is one that I have already updated twice.  The more people I talk to, the more I learn.  In my research, I found more reaso...