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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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Pattato Seiza aims to take the discomfort out of a part of Japanese etiquette that many Japanese people hate: seiza.
Park finally has a timetable to let us start racing Mario Karts, punching question blocks, and eating Luigi’s hat.
Forget “I mustn’t run away,” and keep telling yourself you mustn’t drink a large soda before seeing how the anime franchise wraps up.
Five popular franchises are the first batch of tie-ups at the Tokorozawa Sakura Town hotel.
Choosing four keywords tells if you’re on the path to becoming Raichu, Gyarados, or one of more than 30 other Pokémon, and how to level up in life.
Steamy salarymen are ready to help improve your office skills, as long as you can keep your fingers on the keyboard.
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Ghibli founders Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki contribute to Japanese whisky Totoro label design
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Ghibli theme park will have Totoro playroom, Kiki’s house, and let you work Irontown’s bellows
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