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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Conveyor belt sushi chain Kura Sushi single-sizes osechi, creates new desserts to keep us company.
An amazing collection of cars in a free museum is about to figuratively drive off into the sunset.
Prime minister declares goal of a Japanese astronaut becoming the first non-American to walk on the lunar surface.
Hazukashikunaibukuro hope to make the train ride home from Japan’s biggest otaku art gathering a little less awkward.
Video backs up claim that this is the fastest PC ever made (by one metric), and also possibly the craziest.
Data for 2021 investigation was provided on format most people stopped using more than a decade ago.
Staff thoughtfully provides everything you need to never leave the warm Showa-style kotatsu paradise.
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