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Perhaps the most surprising recent news in the auto industry last week was this little gem. In large part owing to President Obama's negotiation of a free trade agreement with South Korea earlier this year, Toyota will be expanding exports of U.S.-built vehicles to Korea for sale.

If you can't afford to live in Tokyo or Osaka, which are the world's two most expensive cities to live in, then maybe you can make due with a short visit to these beautiful places. Well, that would be expensive, too. But Japan is such a culturally and environmentally rich and wondrous country that...

The exchange rate with the pound is slowly turning back, against our favor. It's still nowhere near the scalding $2-per-pound rate that kept us out of London in droves last year, but it still hurts to pay $1.65 to get a single pound.As someone who often spends chunks of time abroad, I've learned...

I'm about to take a little hiatus from here to go get married and then for a quick honeymoon. It's been a hectic time, planning for the wedding (my fiancée, thankfully, has handled the lion's share of it, but there's always consulting to be done), so I've kept my sanity by focusing on our...

When I was in sixth grade, my father had to go to a conference in Mexico City; for some reason or another, he brought my mother and I along. It was my first trip out of the country, and directly led to my first experiences with altitude sickness, Montezuma's revenge, sangria, and hangovers. It was...

As the value of the dollar has plummeted worldwide, businesses in the United States might have an incentive to accept foreign currency for their transactions. For some industries, this is nothing new. In retail, this is somewhat of a first.But store owners in New York have realized that European...