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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Before you hop on the train out of Fukuoka’s Hakata Station, visit the kids of good fortune in their shrine in the sky.
Studio Ghibli legend also says what modern children are missing that kids had back in his day.
Ordinarily our feelings would be hurt, but the language feels entirely appropriate when it’s coming from the voice of this character.
Nagoya politician also attends harassment awareness workshop, says comments he made about dating and marriage to medalist were inappropriate.
Ghibli let fans ask anything they wanted and pulled back the curtain on the 1997 Hayao Miyazaki anime classic, which almost wasn’t titled Princess Mononoke.
Once only available in the halls of Japan’s parliament, you can now get this special gyuju nationwide.
Finale for anime that became a global phenomenon is ready for its worldwide streaming debut.
Legendary anime studio will answer questions about Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 classic via Twitter.
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