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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The only thing better than catching ‘em all is giving one away to put a smile on a stranger’s face.
Anime characters are known for their big eyes, but this time it’s some tiny ones that are causing terror.
Nipppombashi Street Festa regularly draws over 200,000 people to city’s Denden Town neighborhood, but not this year.
One of Japan’s favorite revolving sushi chains goes way outside the box, but has it gone too far?
Latest discharge leaves only one free broadcast station in all of Japan still willing to show Interspecies Reviewers.
After years of complicated and added-expense hoops to jump through, JR will start letting international travelers buy their passes online and inside their home countries.
Shinjuku Gyoen garden is right in the middle of the city, and has two different types of cold-weather sakura.
Kuma Cooking invites fans to “look at her dish,” and also own her clothing.
Ququri studio apartments offer just 4.64 square meters (49.94 square feet) of usable floor space, but with prices this low, it’s all some people need.
Fan-focused food fun is a 30th-birthday party for the fantasy franchise, and also the only restaurant in Japan where you can DRINK jellyfish.
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Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
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