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Casey Baseel

Yokohama

Editor at SoraNews24

Editor for SoraNews24, where I also write about Japan, language, anime, video games, and food. Follow me...to victory (and probably beer)!

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  • 2 weeks ago | soranews24.com | Casey Baseel

    Ordinarily Japan can’t get enough Cocoichi, but some are saying enough is enough with the price hikes. Curry rice is one of Japan’s favorite things to eat, and its favorite restaurant to eat it at is Cocoichibanya. Also known as Cocoichi, the chain, which was founded in 1978, has over 1,200 branches in Japan, making it the country’s most prominent curry specialty restaurant by far.

  • 2 weeks ago | japantoday.com | Casey Baseel

    Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan isn’t shy about leaning just as heavily into the second geographic part of its name as it does the first. So while sure, they’re happy to hook you up with a bucket of the Colonel’s original-recipe fried chicken, they also regularly offer items that feature Japanese culinary creativity, and that’s what’s on the way with a new sandwich that’s joining the KFC Japan menu: the Yuzu Shichimi Wafu Chicken Katsu Burger.

  • 2 weeks ago | japantoday.com | Casey Baseel

    In April, customs officials at Osaka’s Kansai International Airport learned that a woman who was trying to enter Japan had crammed a sock into the crotch of her clothing. Apparently the bulge wasn’t immediately visually apparent, but an officer noticed that the traveler, a 35-year-old Brazilian woman named Jessica Ramos de Souza, looked unusually tense while she was going through the standard customs process.

  • 3 weeks ago | japantoday.com | Casey Baseel

    Right now, if the Japanese police are formally questioning a person who doesn’t speak Japanese, they’re required to provide an interpreter, who will provide in-person translations at the police station where the suspect is being questioned. That’s going to change, though, and it’s going to change very soon, due to a revision of the National Police Agency’s Criminal Investigation Protocols.

  • 3 weeks ago | soranews24.com | Casey Baseel

    Black Thunder chocolate goes into every can, but does that mean this brew comes out tasty? No matter how old you are, visiting a chocolate factory will make you feel like a kid again. That was something our ace reporter Mr. Sato experienced first hand on his recent trip to the Black Thunder factory in the town of Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, where they make Japan’s favorite brand of incredibly cheap, but also incredibly delicious, chocolate.

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Casey Baseel
Casey Baseel @NatsuKazeOtoko
9 May 25

The idea of following a search for old-school anime merch with an onsen soak does sound really nice. - New hot spring found in Tokyo as 80-year-old bathhouse makes a happy discovery https://t.co/DiDihmBy5D

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Casey Baseel @NatsuKazeOtoko
1 May 25

Today's reason to go to Tochigi: https://t.co/IfBzX4jzao

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Casey Baseel @NatsuKazeOtoko
29 Apr 25

Giving a whole new meaning to the saying "You're a fool to climb Mt. Fuji twice." - Hiker needs to be rescued from Mt. Fuji twice in five days for very dumb reason https://t.co/MUymAeoWKr