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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Father is shown doing so little to help around the house some people wonder if he’s even alive.
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Shows up exactly seven and a half years after the tragic earthquake and tsunami in a town half-way across the country.
If cats are cute, and babies are cute, cats acting like babies must be just about the cutest thing ever, right?
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Ministry of Justice proposal aims to let foreign students stay in Japan after they finish school and work their way up the professional ladder.
Enako’s popularity, and profits, continue to grow as fans form their longest line ever to buy her photo albums.
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