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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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Oh, and there’s also all-you-can-eat crab as part of the deal at this hotel in the coastal onsen resort of Atami.
And other otaku have a theory about where he learned it.
The director of anime Your Name gives us a glimmering glimpse of the beauty of the Asian nation, and also civil engineering.
It’s the name that turns many English-speakers off, but even people in Japan sometimes take issue the way Calpis can linger in your mouth.
Exasperated wife says “OK. Should I pick something up for us instead?” is the wrong answer.
Tokyo makeup artist tells us why having a joso-loving lover makes the relationship “twice as fun.”
Why keep the job you have now when you could be creating Hyrule’s forests, dungeons, and monsters instead?
Designed by the studio behind the Fate anime franchise, the bottle is exclusive to one region of the country.
Video shows a man out for a very atypical afternoon walk.
Sushiro thinks outside the box by letting you stuff yourself with sirloin, kalbi, and chicken tempura sushi.
Illustrator says one group loves Uniqlo, asks women to split the bill on dates.
Miss Magazine contest finalist can thank famous DNA for contributing to her good looks.
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