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Rachel and Jun

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Channel
  
MyHusbandisJapanese

Years active
  
2012 - present

Nationality
  
American (Rachel) Japanese (Jun)

Genre
  
vlog, interview, documentary

Subscribers
  
800,000+ (February 2017)

Total views
  
100,000,000+ (February 2017)

Rachel and Jun are a husband-and-wife team of YouTube personalities who make videos about Japanese culture and society, and reciprocal perceptions between Japanese and Westerners.

Contents

YouTube channel

The videos of the channel consist of vlogs on various topics related to Japanese culture and society, personal experiences and daily life, and also interactions with other Japan-related vloggers. A video of a visit to the "Fox Village" (Kitsune Mura) from Zaō (July 2015) went viral and was featured on many websites. Other videos are remarked for conveying interesting information otherwise unavailable in non-Japanese languages, like a series of videos about fast-paced house construction techniques by Toyota.

Some of the videos are documentaries with interviews on specific topics. The 80-minute documentary "Black in Japan", interviewing black people living in Japan, was featured in the BBC article "What's it like to be black in Japan?" and in other news media websites. The series of interviews and documentaries "Shokunin" introduces various crafts and artisans from Japan.

Rachel and Jun have collaborations with other notable YouTubers such as Simon and Martina and Miranda Ibañez.

The couple was featured in The Japan Times and in the TV show Asachan from TBS, in a section dedicated to foreign YouTube personalities based in Japan. They are sponsored by various companies and agencies promoting international tourism such as Indonesia's Ministry of Tourism, and Odigo Travel.

In 2016, they are traveling from the northern to southern tip of Japan for the travel website Odigo, visiting a total of 20 prefectures and producing a series of travel videos. They are also scheduled panel guests at the anime convention Animazement in Raleigh, North Carolina (May 27–29, 2016).

Jun has an associated channel, Jun's Kitchen, where he posts videos about cooking and culinary arts (the appeal of the videos is increased by his interactions with his cat Kohaku).

Personal life

Rachel and Jun Yoshizuki (嘉月 淳, Yoshizuki Jun) met at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in 2010. They married in 2011 but spent four years in a long distance relationship while Jun finished his studies in Japan and Rachel served out a contract as an officer in the United States Air Force in the US. During this period they started a YouTube channel together as a project to keep them in touch, where they created videos about their experiences and topics related to Japanese and American cultures. The initial name of the channel, MyHusbandisJapanese, was created by Jun as a funny reference to Japanese pop culture, inspired by the title of the manga series My Darling Is a Foreigner. The channel proved to be popular and became an increasing priority in their lives. After her job contract expired, Rachel moved to Nagoya in Japan to live together with Jun.

References

Rachel and Jun Wikipedia