tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424131704277823220.post6362798507962402092..comments2023-09-23T11:16:00.352+02:00Comments on The Franco-American Flophouse has moved: Three Cities, Three MemoriesVictoria FERAUGEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16319699673885400472noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424131704277823220.post-28377055431205617932015-03-30T02:52:28.932+02:002015-03-30T02:52:28.932+02:00@Tim, Overall pretty well. Some issues when he w...@Tim, Overall pretty well. Some issues when he was at Boeing (is this man a spy for Airbus?)<br /><br />I will look into the diasporas here. Some Koreans have a choice to pass - they take Japanese names and blend. It would be interesting to compare Koreans in Japan to say Euro -Canadians in France.<br /><br />@Leslie, Thank you! I'm really glad that you enjoy coming here and reading. The PNW is such a nice place - the elder Frenchling has spent a year now exploring it in depth and she likes it, too. If you could anywhere Leslie, where would you go next?<br /><br />@Blaze, I'll see if I can get someone to snap a photo.<br /><br />@brightoneagele, A place right around the corner in Shinsaibashi called Glaive New York. It's close and they speak English. Here's the link: http://www.whynotjapan.com/guide/craive/en.htm<br /><br />Definitely up for coffee this week. I'll send you a note.Victoria FERAUGEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16319699673885400472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424131704277823220.post-2455430542429268542015-03-29T12:05:38.851+02:002015-03-29T12:05:38.851+02:00Where did you have your hair done? - Studio K, in ...Where did you have your hair done? - Studio K, in Nakatsu? I would also like to see your new hair --> coffee sometime soon perhaps...?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424131704277823220.post-83872049590789446822015-03-27T21:55:42.706+01:002015-03-27T21:55:42.706+01:00@Victoria: It may be post-chemo, but you are more ...@Victoria: It may be post-chemo, but you are more stunning and look younger with the short quirky cut. That's why you should update the photo. Show your beauty to the world.Blazehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12871285356307431578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424131704277823220.post-36735231291264592942015-03-27T21:41:51.481+01:002015-03-27T21:41:51.481+01:00Fascinating essays, Victoria, especially since you...Fascinating essays, Victoria, especially since you started in the Northwest, like me, and are living an expat life that I fully expected to live. Instead, after years of living in California, the East Coast and Europe, I ended up back where I started, Portland. It has been a great place to raise a family and, now, to focus travel on where our kids live (Berkeley and Brooklyn), but with a son looking at living in Southeast Asia for at least two years, my thoughts are turning once again to figuring out how to live abroad. For that and many other reasons, I relish every one of your posts and the thoughts they bring!Leslie in Oregonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424131704277823220.post-80042180132090731002015-03-27T18:39:54.170+01:002015-03-27T18:39:54.170+01:00On another note someday you might want to start in...On another note someday you might want to start investigating the different Korean diaspora groups in Japan. Their are a lot of parallels to ACA and AARO. Here is comment that was left on Brock several months ago. My understanding is in addition to Mindan(Korea's AARO) their is post 1970s Korean diaspora group that pledges loyalty to Japan and is more like a Korean Isaac Brock Society. Perhaps you might want to see if you meet people from both side.<br /><br />Comment from Brock.<br /><br />"Well, ACA wouldn’t be the first diaspora organisation (though perhaps the first American diaspora organisation) to define itself into irrelevance. These “first generation” groups see their primary purpose as helping members maintain their political collection to the Homeland and its government, and projecting an image of diaspora loyalty so as to get goodies from that government. They don’t know how to adjust to the “second generation” mission of helping members thrive in the country they’ve chosen as their actual home whatever that might mean for their legal relationship to a country they don’t live in.<br /><br />For those of you who enjoy obscure historical analogies: ACA is Mindan (a pro-South Korean association for Koreans in Japan) in 1973. They’re talented and sincere people who through no fault of their own are caught up in major political events beyond their control which demonstrate the Homeland’s suspicion towards the diaspora & willingness to reach out extraterritorially and punish them unjustly. And they don’t have the slightest clue know how to deal with it except by adopting the failing “double down” strategy of exhorting people to remain loyal to the Homeland government and promising that through their insider efforts the injustices will eventually be righted.<br /><br />In Mindan’s case, it was the 1972 espionage trial of two Korean brothers from Japan who went to university in Seoul, and then the kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung from a Tokyo hotel the next year. From 1970 to 1975 there was a 40% jump in the annual number of South Koreans naturalising in Japan. And here we have the American diaspora four decades later; history doesn’t repeat itself but it sure does rhyme"<br /><br /><br /><br />Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03894651289037073128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424131704277823220.post-70430844141776545462015-03-27T04:28:54.249+01:002015-03-27T04:28:54.249+01:00Just out of curiosity how did your spouse fit in i...Just out of curiosity how did your spouse fit in in Seattle? Seattle has never seemed to me to be that francophone friend of a place.<br /><br />Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03894651289037073128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424131704277823220.post-24067720251435768042015-03-26T23:44:11.793+01:002015-03-26T23:44:11.793+01:00Hi Blaze, Good idea. That photo is me pre-chemo....Hi Blaze, Good idea. That photo is me pre-chemo.<br /><br />OK I'm hooked on the fish pedicure and the forest bathing. Let me see what I can do.<br /><br />But first Himeji Castle and the sakura...Victoria FERAUGEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16319699673885400472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424131704277823220.post-79034115751648459422015-03-26T15:08:06.435+01:002015-03-26T15:08:06.435+01:00Show us the photo of your new do. It`s time to upd...Show us the photo of your new do. It`s time to update the photo on your blog!<br /><br />As I posted yesterday in another thread, for another beautifying adventure, you can have a fish pedicure. You must be nude in this Tokyo spa: <br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/03/AR2007080301009.html<br /><br />If you prefer to be more modest, it seems the woman who wrote the following post kept her clothes on. At the end, she lists Osaka Spa World as a place where you can get a Dr. Kiss Fish pedicure. <br /><br />http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2006/11/28/lifestyle/a-feast-for-fish-in-search-for-beauty/#.VRQKjo44Xhk<br /><br />These are Turkish fish who would give a pedicure to a French-American woman in Japan. Now that is an international experience!<br /><br />Do it! We want a report--and photos!<br /><br />Blazehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12871285356307431578noreply@blogger.com