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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One is making her Sailor Moon debut, and the other is returning to the franchise for the first time in almost 30 years, but in a new role.
Yeah, Tokugawa Ieyasu was a great shogun and all, but we’re here to see (and eat) Tokugawa Piyoyasu.
Supporters of soy and other sauces square off in ongoing difference of opinion among Japanese foodies.
Family Mart has a way for to combine two of our favorite comfort foods and eat them with our hands.
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Beautiful set of 24 Ghibli anime memo pads returns, will have you wanting to take notes by hand
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