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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Suspected yakuza member arrested for having frequent flyer mile account

Not quite as glamourous as a secret bank account.

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The Pokémon anime studio’s next project is a Scooby-Doo anime, Yokoso Scooby-Doo

Scooby, Scooby-Doo, where are you? Ah, you’re in Japan!

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McDonald’s Japan’s new Chiikawa Happy Meal figures are here![Photos]

New tie-up with hit anime comes with anti-scalper strategy.

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Mister Donut’s beyond super soft and chewy beyond mochi mochi donuts have returned

Mocchurin are back, and they brought a new friend with them.

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Self-proclaimed Americans arrested for breaking into Punch the monkey’s Japanese zoo habitat

Intruder enters home of beloved stuffed animal-loving macaque.

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This Tokyo Station sweets sensation sells out daily, but we finally got our hands on it

Mont Blanc The Hakuzan is a sweets shop so nice it’s named twice.

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Shochu maker on remote Japanese island plays music as its spirits age, flavor varies by genre

Rock shochu and reggae shochu really do taste different from each other.

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7-Eleven Japan now sells canned water, but does funky packaging mean funky flavor?[Taste test]

Lotte’s canned water makes its convenience store debut.

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Let’s hike a Japanese mountain (that isn’t Mt. Fuji) – Mt. Tsukuba[Photos]

A beautiful, highly customizable hike that’s an easy day-trip from Tokyo.

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Hundreds of rose bushes in bloom at Tokyo’s off-the-beaten-path, next-to-the-tracks flower street

Local road goes from trash dump to treasure.

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Studio Ghibli’s president is leaving the company. Will it change how they make anime?

Three years after being acquired by Nippon TV, there’s a shakeup at the top levels of Ghibli’s leadership.

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Tokyo’s life-size Gundam anime mecha statue will be removed this summer

Goodbye (again), Gundam.

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7-Eleven Japan is releasing Greedy chocolate chip and whipped cream sandwiches

We’re not sure if we can say greed is good, but it does look delicious.

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Nintendo reveals live-action Legend of Zelda movie is coming sooner than we’d thought

The wait just got a little shorter for Nintendo’s return to live-action movies.

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Live-action Princess Mononoke stage cast appears in costume for first time[Video]

Kabuki adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki Ghibli anime opens in Tokyo this summer.

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Now you can carry the unnerving terror and beauty of Noh masks with you with new pouches from Japan

Practical and horrifying!

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Man tells Nintendo HQ “I’m going to blow you all the hell up,” gets arrested by Kyoto cops

Video game developer received threatening letter earlier this spring.

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“They’ve got be kidding me.” – Mayor in Japan fed up with off-season Mt. Fuji hikers needing rescue

Fujinomiya mayor wants people hiking unopened trails to think about someone other than just themselves.

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New bounty system starts in Japan, rewards reports of illegal employment of foreigners

Ibaraki Prefecture now offers rewards to whistleblowers who lead them to companies illegally employing foreign workers.

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War in Iran causing dark development for potato chip packages in Japan

Japanese convenience store snack sections are going to be looking drab later this month.

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