The back story for “The Truth About Crickets” In the mid 1960’s, the translator/legal advisor for Mr. Matsushita (of Matsushita Electric Company, aka National or Panasonic) asked my father if he would be receptive to our family appearing in the international print ads for Matsushita. My father agreed. Thereafter, Matsushita photographers appeared on our doorstep on a regular basis, taking pictures that recorded a lifestyle: that of the expatriate family living overseas. Moreover, the photos unwittingly documented my transformation, from the five-year-old who believed she must be part Japanese if she was born in Japan, to the nine-year-old who, because of the break-up of her parent’s marriage, would have to…