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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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.
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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?
These Azumanga Daioh sweets are older than many anime fans, and they’re not the only uneaten collectors’ food otaku have hung on to.
Two Tokyoites take top titles in annual contest.
Continuing outbreak causes organizers to call off dojinshi event for the first time in its 45-year-history.
A helping hand to Japan’s hurting ranchers that would also be great reason to social distance at home.
”Military” designation has been absent from certified teaching materials for more than a decade.
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