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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Japan’s purring cat cuddle cushions evolve into an even higher form of virtual pet life【Photos】

Premium MeowEver gives you the warmth, softness, shape, and even weight of cuddling the pet cat you can’t own.

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Ramen-based fuel now powers one of Japan’s most beautiful sightseeing railways

Leftover tonkotsu broth gets a new purpose in Kyushu.

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Cup Noodles Fried Rice: Super-easy recipe will make you a potluck or campsite hero【SoraKitchen】

Instead of making Cup Noodle itself your meal, you can make a gorgeous, delicious meal using Cup Noodle.

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Is ramen without the “men” a Tokyo dining paradox worth experiencing?【Taste test】

Tachikawa Mashi Mashi challenges the concept of what exactly ramen is.

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Japanese cop tells wild boar “I’ll shoot ya” if it comes closer, boar wisely heeds warning【Video】

Officer protects citizens without the use of deadly force.

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Visiting Evangelion’s Tokyo-3 anime locations in real-life Hakone【Photos】

Turns out Tokyo-3 is a really nice place to visit when it’s not getting attacked by giant space monsters.

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Pokémon Poké Ball rice balls now on sale in Japan, don’t taste like jelly donuts【Taste test】

7-Eleven is the next stop on our quest to become Pokémon food masters.

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More than one in three Japanese working women in survey would rather be housewives

Survey also finds a surprising gap in housewife-life appeal depending on whether or not women have kids.

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Bleach Coca-Cola is on sale in Japan and won’t kill you, but how does it taste?【Taste test】

We crack open a can of the crossover between Coca-Cola and the Bleach anime/manga franchise.

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Tokyo’s Curry Udon Croquette Burger is four of Japan’s favorite foods in one【Taste test】

Ikebukuro Bread Festival serves up hybrid rice bowl burgers too.

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Tsundere beer now on sale in Japan, but it’s not like she brewed it for you or anything, baka!

A beer with two sides to its flavor for the anime archetype with two sides to her personality.

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Ranma 1/2 is half of team-up with Felissimo for a whole lot of cool fashion and lifestyle items

Rumiko Takahashi’s anime/manga hit serves as the inspiration for everything from ramen topping pajamas to “chain-link fence” pouches.
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These gigantic SD Demon Slayer plushies definitely aren’t chibi【Photos】

Massive, and massively cute, stuffed Demon Slayers to share your home with.

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Amazing time-lapse-style video shows 150-year history of the growth of train stations in Japan

Points of light shine bright, and sometimes disappear, in this fascinating look at the last century and a half.

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Live-action Spirited Away stage play is finally available for on-demand streaming

Couldn’t make it to the theater to see the adaptation of the Studio Ghibli anime masterpiece? Now you can watch it from home.

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Pokémon/Puma team-up provides Poké-style from soles of your feet to top of your head【Photos】

Pikachu and the original starter Pokémon are joined by the Puma puma.

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Urusei Yatsura Cafe to open in four cities in Japan as part of celebration of Lum’s return【Pics】

Food and drinks offer the same mix of romance and physical pain as the hit anime, exclusive merch to also be offered for sale online.

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Tasting Korea’s sweet that looks like a copy of a remix of a copy of a Japanese sweet but isn’t

The case of Toppo vs. Nude Pepero and Pepero vs. Pocky.

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Perfectly recreated 1960s Japanese apartment lets museum visitors go back to mid-Showa era【Pics】

Matsudo Museum recreates Tokiwadaira Danchi, and a day in the life of old-school Japan.

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Mandarake used bookstore branches banned from selling adult entertainment items for 180 days

Ruling by Public Safety Commission targets Tokyo shops that sold pornography with “obscene material.”

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