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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Why grow out of being an otaku when you can glow up into being a beautiful one?
Enako is chosen by the Cabinet of Japan to promote Japanese pop culture on an international scale.
We take a chance with a random selection from a machine that sells tarantulas and dung beetles for you to eat.
Cherry blossom plans cancelled? Here’s a new one: doing hanami at home with these beautiful photos.
He’s ready to run customers around the empty streets of Asakusa, even though he knows it’s not the safest choice.
Actual driving experience may not include Angel battles, Shinji, Rei, and Asuka want us to know.
A trip to a Tokyo dog cafe and a chance encounter with a Shiba Inu master leads to an epiphany for our canine-loving reporter.
Video game studio is told it doesn’t have to close, but decides to make worker safety its priority.
Tokyo’s governor hopes having firm start date will allow athletes and organizers to better focus on preparing for the delayed Games.
Nine rooms of puzzles and a countdown to disaster to get your team’s minds working and pulses racing.
Roughly one third of the planet expected to be unable to travel to Japan as part of expanded coronavirus countermeasures.
Pretty much everyone who visits Nara stops by the park to feed crackers to the deer, so are the smaller crowds leaving them hungry?
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