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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You can treat your Christmas blues by treating yourself to some comfort food at a discounted price.
We visit Japan’s big three combini, plus one dark horse contender, on our search for nikuman bliss.
Upcoming series’ title suggests it may be a remake of the original hit from the late ‘90s.
Tired of being told there’s no point in playing games, he shows how the question misses the point.
The game not enough people wanted to play when it launched now has the exact opposite problem.
Tea company that’s been in business for more than 300 years takes Japanese sweets to a pitch-black frontier.
Director of Your Name, Weathering with You’s latest project is a supernatural road movie action adventure.
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This isn’t the first time for this character to be chosen as the representative for the year, and it probably won’t be the last either.
Pork-stock ramen in onigiri form sounds like a covetous convenience store snack that would require dark powers to create.
It may not be the only reason, but part of the plan is that green tea and wagashi will help keep you safe during your stay.
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