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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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Over 1,400 cities in Japan see foreign population rise, total populations drop in new statistics

Casey Baseel
15 hours ago
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Japan’s foreign population is growing in both size and proportion, ministry study shows.

Japan
(COK • foreigners in Japan • internationalism • Living in Japan • society)

This awesome Japanese arcade chain has crane game coaches to help you win prizes

Casey Baseel
yesterday

Our crane game novice heads to Benex for a training day with the Assist Crew.

Japan
(Arcades • Benex • claw games • COK • crane games • game centers • Natsuno Futon • SNJO • UFO catchers)

Studio Ghibli theme park announces new expansion saluting a previously off-limits anime

Casey Baseel
yesterday

After initially saying no to a Nausicaa area, Ghibli has had a change of heart.

Japan
(Aichi • Amusement Parks • anime • Hayao Miyazaki • Japan travel • manga • Nagoya • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind • Studio Ghibli • theme parks • tourism • travel)

Are Japan’s room-temperature curry packets the boxed lunch heroes we’ve been looking for? [Taste test]

Casey Baseel
2 days ago

Packets of curry you can store and eat at room temperature could be the answer to our prayers for portable, smell-safe curry.

Japan
(bento • boxed lunches • clever • COK • cool • curry • curry rice • food • SNJO • taste test)

Tokyo is getting a branch of famous Los Angeles hot dog chain Pink’s with Japan-exclusive items

Casey Baseel
2 days ago

87-year-old hot dog chain is going to learn some new tricks.

Japan
(COK • food • hot dogs • Pink’s Hot Dogs • Pink’s Hot Dogs Japan • restaurants)

Kumamoto earthquake may have created Japan’s newest hot spring inside flooded restaurant [Video]

Casey Baseel
2 days ago

Kumamoto City izakaya began flooding with hot, sulfur-smelling water immediately after quake.

Japan
(2026 Kumamoto earthquake • COK • crazy • disaster • earthquakes • hot springs • izakaya • Kumamoto • Kumamoto City • kumamoto earthquake • onsen • pubs • restaurants)

This beautiful rural Japan river is a great alternative to touristy summer retreats [Photos]

Casey Baseel
3 days ago

The Enbaragawa River’s lighting and subsurface flow put it on a different level of natural beauty.

Japan
(beautiful • COK • Gifu • Gifu Prefecture • heat • Japan travel • nature • outdoors • rivers • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Japan’s new beer glass is designed to force you to drink…water [Video]

Casey Baseel
3 days ago

Yona Yona has a furatsuku idea to promote responsible drinking.

Japan
(alcohol • beer • clever • crazy • drinks • drinkware • video • weird • Yona Yona Ale)

Bandai looking to introduce Japanese government ID checks for admission to card game events

Casey Baseel
4 days ago

Don’t have a My Number Card from the Japanese government? You might not be getting into some events for One Piece or other Bandai trading card games.