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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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New service offers calls directly from idols to fans’ smartphones or PCs, with chats coming as soon as five minutes from the request.
Secular summer festival’s wishing tree gets taken down, clever complaints from students go up instead.
There are no wrong answers, as long as you’ve got the right question.
Love is in the cups, and maybe the air, as Mr. Sato sees if he can make the SoraNews24 staff fall in love with each other.
In the busiest city in a country famous for working employees to death, Tokyo Workers hopes to help people find the work/life balance they desire.
It’s more than 10 times more expensive than a typical bento, but is this Tokyo Station luxury worth the price?
Annual celebration of midriff-baring swimsuits takes place just ahead of the start of prime beach weather in Japan.
Legendary Entertainment is ready to roll the dice on adapting the biggest anime mecha series of all time for the overseas live-action movie market.
Leaping into action and clearing Japan’s already high bar for customer service in an amazing way.
Shinobi training manual covers ingredients to make sleeping potions and smoke bombs, as well as magic incantations.
Aum Shinrikyo founder, three other members hanged 23 years after deadly subway attack, more executions likely to follow.
Scientists from Tokyo and Ibaraki discover there’s a cutoff point where kicking actually starts to slow you down.
If gigantic anime figures are your idea of fine art from Japan, you won’t want to miss this free event in Akihabara.
Japanese fans vote in survey for their favorite anime characters who hail from the U.S.A., including sports stars, violent killers, and mecha pilots.
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