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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Starting next spring, going to school is going to mean going to Shibuya to play games for some Tokyo teens.
Fried chicken is Japan’s favorite Christmas dinner, and KFC wants to make sure fans get the most out of their meal.
Collaboration with one of Japan’s favorite sake breweries won’t get you drunk, will make you happy.
Japan’s biggest anime specialty shop chain warns that not following this advice could turn Christmas into a day of tears.
For a service that promises a clean break with a bad job, this taishoku daikou has a lot of strings attached.
Head-raising ceremony held for new/Nu Gundam, the first life-size mobile suit in west Japan.
You can treat your Christmas blues by treating yourself to some comfort food at a discounted price.
We visit Japan’s big three combini, plus one dark horse contender, on our search for nikuman bliss.
Upcoming series’ title suggests it may be a remake of the original hit from the late ‘90s.
Tired of being told there’s no point in playing games, he shows how the question misses the point.
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Ghibli founders Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki contribute to Japanese whisky Totoro label design
Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
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Spirited Away train station and submerged tracks attract Ghibli fans around Japan
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