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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A gacha capsule for anyone who truly thinks it’s not the destination that’s important, but the journey.
Japanese Twitter falls in love with both the clever before and disastrous after of this boxed lunch.
Nitamago are an overlooked treasure of Japanese convenience stores, but which is the right one for you?
“Let’s overcome these barriers” says Shibasaki, who just might be everyone’s kind and cool Japanese art uncle.
Composer didn’t enter the video game business until he was in his 50s, still created over 500 pieces of music for landmark video game series.
Switch would solve a lot of school uniform-related problems, but not everyone thinks it’s a great idea.
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Multi-year creative alliance promises interactive theme park entertainment kicking off soon.
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