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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Don’t go to Japan, and if you’re already traveling there, come home ASAP, says State Department.
Family-run Nagano inn that’s been in business for more than 50 years has a very modern, very cool amenity.
Usually, when you gotta go, you gotta go, but maybe you can’t when you’re supposed to be driving the bullet train.
Dark Knights come together to pay respects to Kentaro Miura, who was a light in their lives.
Colleagues remember Kentaro Miura, whose personality was nothing like the dark, hopeless world of his biggest hit.
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Both sides of this Pokémon’s split personality are here to help you with/distract you from whatever you’re doing at your PC.
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[Deleted] Article written for April Fool’s Day 2018
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