Rachel and Jun

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Rachel and Jun are an American/Japanese married couple of YouTube personalities who make online videos about Japanese culture and society (sometimes called J-vlog(ger)s), and reciprocal perceptions between Japanese and Westerners.

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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 Za? (July 2015) went viral and was featured on many websites.

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.

Rachel and Jun have collaborations with other notable YouTubers such as Simon and Martina, Sebastiano Serafini, The Anime Man, einshine and Miranda Ibañez.

The couple were featured in The Japan Times and in the TV show Asachan from TBS, in a section dedicated to foreign YouTube personalities based in Japan.

In 2016, they traveled 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 were 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).

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Personal life

Rachel is from Cincinnati, Ohio. Rachel and Junichi "Jun" Yoshizuki (?? ??, Yoshizuki Junichi) 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 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.