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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Official Tokyo Marathon T-shirts get recalled for English spelling mistake

Things started off OK, but didn’t finish quite right.

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Tokyo’s Shinjuku is looking very different with its giant westside skyscraper torn down【Photos】

It’s been a long time since the busy Tokyo neighborhood looked like this.

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Sakura and matcha from 150-year-old Kyoto tea merchant ice creams arrive at Baskin-Robbins Japan

Springtime sweets give us even more to choose from at “Thirty-one.”

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New Pokémon card game lounge opening in downtown Tokyo with free drinks, snacks, and loaner decks

Shibuya Scramble-adjacent Tsutaya building set to become newest Pokémon destination.

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Fox-boy Sephiroth really wants Cloud to eat some noodles in new Donbei/Final Fantasy video【Video】

Final Fantasy VII’s villain gets a foxy makeover as he forcibly recommends a meal for his rival.

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Do all big Japanese cafe chains just give you a tea bag when you order black tea? Let’s find out

Our black tea-loving reporter goes in search of a proper cup of tea at five of Japan’s most popular cafe chains.

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Low-Amazon-rated heater claims to melt car frost with energy blasts, does only half a thing right

Vulgar analogy turns out to be surprisingly accurate.

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Free in-flight KitKats discontinued by Japanese airline, sad day for sweets and Pokémon fans

A bittersweet moment for skyborne sweets.

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What are the most and least attractive hobbies for Japanese men and women? Survey investigates

One hobby for women shows up in both guys’ top and bottom rankings.

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Bathing with Pokémon? Healing species’ powers tapped for Pokémon Recovery public baths in Japan

Who’s in the mood to soak in a Milotic Life Dew Bath?

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Japan spending survey shows one region really likes to drink

Beer? Sake? One part of Japan has a strong fondness for both, as well as a few other alcoholic beverages.

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Suika Game can now help you stay in shape with new exercise version of the smash-hit game【Video】

Why be a couch potato when you can be a fruit exerciser instead?

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Japan’s life-size moving Gundam is closing soon, and the last tickets are about to go on sale

Mobile Suit Gundam: goodbye.

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Sakura flower petal soda, other cherry blossom treats have us ready to hurry to Japan’s Pronto cafes

Sakura shares space in the cup with another seasonal flower flavor.

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Sakura Totoro tableware arrives in stores just in time for sakura season【Photos】

Even the Studio Ghibli mascot gets swept up in the springtime spirit.

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Japan’s Cat Day comes to Family Mart convenience stores with huge line of feline-fun sweets, drinks

Family Mart becomes “Family Nya-rt.”

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Akihabara’s iconic meat restaurant skyscraper is closing down after 33 years of great meals

But this isn’t the end of Niku no Mansei’s time in Tokyo’s otaku mecca.

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New Japan rail pass gives you a week of free rides in a huge space to chase the cherry blossoms

Go east, and north, Japan travelers!

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New live-action Spirited Away actresses appear in costume as Chihiro for first time

Stage adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli film gears up for its first performances outside Japan.

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Is Japan’s massive Shizuoka steak sandwich really as delicious as it looks in promo photos?

Star of the Shizuoka steak scene comes to Tokyo, and to our stomach.

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