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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Japanese superhero Kamen Rider arrested for meth use

The tokusatsu franchise continues to find itself on the wrong side of the law with second arrest in as many months.

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Cynics and romantics in Japan debate list of promises for lovers in five-year relationships

Some see a road map to lasting romance, others see a direct course to a pain in the butt.

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Daring fashion choice requires both confidence and chestiness in large measures.

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Group of Japanese teens busted for marijuana, say “We wanted to be like foreign musicians”

High schoolers from rural Kochi Prefecture wanted to live the high life.

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Decades’ worth of anime moms assemble for amazing group shot that even features an Undertale shout-out.

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Japanese train company issues official apology for “inexcusable” 25-second early departure

Because 25 seconds early is not the same as right on time.

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Beautiful woman stuns Japanese Internet, no one will ever know her name because she’s a painting

Breathtaking artwork form Hiroshima artist looks more like photography than oil paintings.

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Hornets: The perfect pet for people living in Japan?

One enthusiastic owner is singing their praises, while others are screaming in terror.

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Japanese women show continuing decline in how much they expect a husband to earn in survey

This year’s top answer is one to two million yen less than a year ago.

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Dojinshi manga artist makes fan’s day with special promise for the next two years【Manga】

Artist meets fan who loves his work yet can’t buy it, but not because she can’t afford it.

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Civil servant spends 20 minutes hitting on schoolgirl in Japan, gets arrested instead of a date

Man with more determination than brains says after initial rejection days earlier, he “just couldn’t forget her.”

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Fatburger opens in Tokyo, and we do battle for the throne with its huge 1.5-pound US Kingburger

After tasting defeat at Fatburger in America a year ago, we’re back for a rematch as the Los Angeles-based burger chain comes to Japan.

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New 8-bit Nintendo classic system announced for Japan with 20 games not in last version

Famicom Mini Weekly Shonen Jump 50th Anniversary Version is all about manga/anime games, but that could spell disaster for North America.

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Japanese hotel’s amazing mechanized bed rises to the ceiling to give you more floor space【Video】

Japan has a reputation for cool gadgets and efficient interiors, but this is on a whole new level!

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Domino’s Pizza Japan now sells curry to dip its pizza crust in, and we want it so bad

Clam chowder and chili dips also available, and are enticing alternatives to Japanese pizza with mayo.

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Furious woman berates men on women-only Tokyo train with spot-on anime girl voice【Video】

Tongue-lashing has fans of Idolmaster, Evangelion franchises thinking they’ve heard that voice before.

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Tokyo crow who tried to buy a train ticket gets illegally captured

Local citizen takes the law into her own hands and catches the prepaid card-stealing bird, but lands in trouble with the authorities herself.

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Evangelion director calls Hayao Miyazaki “geezer” in anime commentary, says he broke his Walkman

Hideaki Anno recalls working on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with the Studio Ghibli legend.

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Suntory has clear, no-alcohol, plastic-bottled beer so you can drink at work without being judged

Product was created to meet customers’ “various needs,” in this case enjoying the taste of beer while in the middle of your shift.

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AKB48, Love Live! idol supergroups to perform live in Los Angeles this summer

Three-concert series welcomes some of the biggest names in the anime/idol music world to the city of angels.

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