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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Is this arcade game corner the kindest or cruelest for idol otaku who love game for little girls?

Sometimes, the line between hospitality and hostility is a blurry one.

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Hello Kitty joins Mario Maker, may possibly break Japanese-ness level-measuring equipment 【Video】

Arrival of Kitty-chan and fellow Sanrio character My Melody is the most Japanese thing since schoolgirl outfit Pikachu.

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Japan’s 54-year-old lingerie model is turning heads of multiple generations in new ads 【Video】

They don’t call her the “Eternal Idol” for nothing.

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Free Japanese e-book of cats in sexy poses is like the entire Internet in one convenient package

Downloadable and browser versions contain photos of more than 200 alluring pusses.

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Adorable Japanese kitty is having the time of his nine lives with this face massager 【Video】

Maybe they should sell these things in the pet supply section instead of the beauty products corner?

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This beautiful, traditional Japanese building is actually a fully modern convenience store

Convenience stores in Japan are often like mini supermarkets, but this one near one of Shinto’s holiest shrines also feels like a time machine.

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Why buy a new car when you could get this life-sized anime girl statue for the same price?

Full-scale To Love-Ru figure being offered to the public for the first time, but the slender character has a hefty price.

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Japanese idol group’s CD-purchase rewards include overnight hot spring stay with favorite singer

Fans will need to part with two million yen (US$18,181) to earn the weekend getaway.

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“Anime that’s trying to be like previous hits can never surpass the originals.”

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Godzilla vs. Evangelion towels need all of Japan as stage big enough to contain their awesomeness

Culturally cool tenugui let you show your love of Eva Units, kaiji, and your favorite Japanese prefecture all at once.

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Live-action adaptation of anime Fullmetal Alchemist coming to theaters

All-Japanese cast set to start filming in Europe next month.

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This Lego samurai castle would be amazing even if it wasn’t also an awesome pop-up book 【Video】

Extremely talented builder needs neither stone, lumber, nor paper for this mind-blowing project.

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Swanky Tokyo hotel’s 2.2-pound bacon cheeseburger has us wanting to book a room for the food coma

Some would say it’s wrong to go to a fancy steakhouse and order a burger. If so, then we don’t want to be right.

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What would Pokémon look like as Gundam mecha? Awesome fan-made models show us 【Photos】

A fresh take on old-school Pocket Monsters and mobile suits.

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Crazed Japanese fans at Tokyo anime event show they’re the most passionate in the world 【Video】

When Love Live! is your life, it’s hard to feel more alive than this.

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Kyoto Starbucks’s elegant over-river seating might make it the country’s coolest coffeehouse

Seattle-based chain adapts to Kyoto style with summertime seats that offer a taste of traditional culture as you sip your coffee.

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Japanese Twitter user snoops under brother’s bed, finds less yet far more than she bargained for

Hey! It’s perfectly normal for a young man to be interested in that sort of thing!

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Why does Japanese writing need three different sets of characters? (Part 2)

We’re back and ready to take on the third, and most puzzling, type of Japanese text: katakana.

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Japan is getting its first full-scale Legoland amusement park

But it’s not Tokyo that’s being graced with the block-based attraction.

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Japanese dogs fail to stay calm during earthquake, succeed in bringing smiles to humans’ faces

”Don’t panic” is rule one during an earthquake. These pooches decided to break it.

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