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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Maps and projected dates present a great opportunity for travelers looking to chase the cherry blossoms from one end of Japan to the other.
“One-of-a-kind premium fireworks” event offers amazing views with eye-popping ticket prices.
One of Japan’s three most beautiful gardens gets even more beautiful with special ume illumination event.
Yoshinoya, Matsuya, and Sukiya battle it out with each other plus a dark horse contender as we go looking for the tastiest pork miso soup.
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Technology hopes to help visitors from overseas more thoroughly enjoy a unique aspect of Akiba culture.
If your town is getting a new Gunpla factory, it only makes sense that it get a full-size Gundam statue too, right?
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