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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Ameyoko has always been a great place to look for bargains, and we’re very happy we found this one.
Time feels like it’s standing still in this downtown Tokyo dining complex with over a century of history.
When it’s this easy and this affordable, there’s really never a reason to not be eating warabi mochi.
Japan’s new KFC-flavor potato chips don’t taste like KFC, but they do taste like chicken【Taste test】
Flavor reminds our KFC fundamentalist taste tester of a different chicken restaurant icon than Colonel Sanders.
Tells people with few children to put their hands over their hearts and regret their actions.
Super Mario and Donkey Kong head to Happy Meals, courtesy of their colony inside Universal Studios Japan.
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