Casey Baseel
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Casey Baseel spent his formative years staring in frustration at un-subtitled Japanese TV programming shown on Southern California’s international channel. Taking matters into his own hands, he moved to Tokyo to study the language, then found work in Yokohama a decade ago teaching, translating, and marketing hotels he can’t afford to stay in. When not participating in the eternal cycle of exercising to burn the calories form his love of Japanese food, Casey scours used comic and game shops for forgotten classics, drags his wife around the country in a quest to visit all its castles, sings karaoke not nearly as well as he thinks he does, and counts the days until the summertime bars open on Enoshima Beach.
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![Kumamoto earthquake may have created Japan’s newest hot spring inside flooded restaurant [Video]](https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/08/1_ee3a7c.jpg?w=640 "Kumamoto earthquake may have created Japan’s newest hot spring inside flooded restaurant [Video]")
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![This beautiful rural Japan river is a great alternative to touristy summer retreats [Photos]](https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/08/0_04767c.jpg?w=640 "This beautiful rural Japan river is a great alternative to touristy summer retreats [Photos]")
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![Japan’s new beer glass is designed to force you to drink…water [Video]](https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/08/2_d1595a.jpg?w=640 "Japan’s new beer glass is designed to force you to drink…water [Video]")
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![Final Fantasy plushie shoulder bags are fuzzy and functional [Photos]](https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/08/1_8a5d2c.jpg?w=640 "Final Fantasy plushie shoulder bags are fuzzy and functional [Photos]")
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![Yoshinoya gets into fancy fish, but is the cheap beef king reaching too far? [Taste test]](https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/07/12_30cf37.jpg?w=640 "Yoshinoya gets into fancy fish, but is the cheap beef king reaching too far? [Taste test]")
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![Coco’s Japan is very confident in their chilled ramen, but should they be? [Taste test]](https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/07/20_bcb735.jpg?w=640 "Coco’s Japan is very confident in their chilled ramen, but should they be? [Taste test]")
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