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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Memorable scenes and dialogue from My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Castle in the Sky.
A perfectly cooked single-serving of rice with just this mug and a microwave, no rice cooker needed.
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Foreigner’s request for help in Tokyo makes us sad for the state of society
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