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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Because if you know everything, you don’t have to worry about what’s going to be on the test.
Nope, that’s not backwards. The chips really are on the outside in this awesomely clever idea.
Most people in Japan outgrow this game by the time they finish grade school, but Kyoko Fukada had adults’ attention.
Critics call for revision to brand-new edition of one of Japan’s most trusted and influential language resources.
Mr. Sato heads to Japan’s biggest tuner car event, where he finds out why one booth had its models wearing scarves.
Cold weather along Japan’s northern coast assists in letting offender know what he did was not cool.
Wait, hot springs can freeze?
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