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 pricing system makes some taxi rides over 40 percent less expensive than they used to be.
Eyes on the road, and hands to yourself.
Ordinarily, this much confidence would border on arrogance, but there’s no way we can stay mad at that face.
If you’re out enjoying the fantasies and frills, don’t forget that they come at a very real price.
It might seem like the restaurant is just out to make an extra buck, but those veggies could be keeping you from making an old-school sushi faux pas.
Unexpected request changes attitudes about sidewalk manners and being considerate of vision-impaired residents.
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