The Rachel and Jun channel is creating
Videos about Japan

Tracking down the parts of Japan you haven't seen

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Jun's computer is... not great. He can't play the videos he's editing. He can't open more than one project file at once. His computer freezes once an hour. It's slow. It does weird things. He needs a new computer.
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About

We're a Japanese/American married couple making videos about Japan!

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Japan

The Rachel and Jun channel is Supporting

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We're a Japanese/American intercultural couple, married for four years and making videos about Japan for three! We've spent thousands of hours planning, writing, and filming 200+ videos on four YouTube channels. It's a time-consuming, expensive hobby, and we love it!

Highlights of our channel include:

Shokunin mini-documentaries
Mini-documentary style videos showcasing Japan's declining population of traditional craftsmen/women and artisans.


Interview series
Asking Japanese people your questions directly.



And many more!

     Science             Cooking             Culture               Travel
          
            
         

We spend between 12-50 hours PER VIDEO on average (and significantly longer on our Shokunin videos). This doesn't take into account the time we spend responding to comments, messages, keeping up to date with social media, and meeting people in person! This makes our YouTube hobby very, very time consuming. We don't mind!

The problem is our channel requires so much time to run now that it's interfering with our real jobs--a problem we can't afford to have.

Additionally, we have so many plans for the future of our channel, including a nation-wide hunt for Japan's shokunin. But transportation is VERY expensive in Japan.

This is the distance between Nagoya (our city) and Tokyo. It's roughly 350km/225miles, less than the distance between Los Angeles and Sacramento. Taking a plane or shinkansen costs us ~$200 per person. We could take a six hour bus ride and still pay $100 per person. And believe it or not, driving ourselves costs $75+ in tolls ALONE one way!

For the two of us, plus hotels and food, traveling even just to Tokyo (one of the closest large cities) costs us a lot! And so far we've never earned enough ad revenue to make up for travel expenses, not to mention the time we put into filming and editing.

There are a lot of shokunin, special locations, and breakthrough Japanese technologies or projects from Okinawa through Hokkaido that we want to introduce to the world, but we can't afford to visit these places on our own!

And this is where Patreon comes in!

Through Patreon, you can help support our channel so we can spend more time making better quality videos. You can help us upgrade our equipment so that we can finally buy an external microphone, and Jun can get a new computer that doesn't freeze once an hour! Our stretch goal includes a second camera we can use for our shokunin videos. We've missed a lot of awesome footage in all of our shokunin videos so far since usually multiple family members are working on different steps of the process at once. Additionally, when we interview shokunin we have to choose between getting the video footage of the interview or getting video footage of people working--another difficult decision that's resulted in the loss of a lot of interesting information!

So thank you for reading, thank you for your consideration, and thank you very much for your support!

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40 patrons
For $1 a month you’ll get:
-All our unending gratitude
-Access to the exclusive Patreon feed where you can see updates we won’t share anywhere else about the projects we’re working on, pictures from our daily lives, and announcements!

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For $2 a month we'll appreciate you even more! And you still get access to the Patreon feed. There aren't any additional perks for $2, other than supporting us twice as much.

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69 patrons
For $5 a month you'll get:
-All our unending gratitude
-Access to the exclusive Patreon feed
-Every month you'll get a special Jun's Kitchen recipe straight from Jun (and cat)! There won't be a video, but you'll get the written instructions and a picture/pictures!

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30 patrons
For $10 a month you get all of the above, plus access to a once a month 1-hour live chat exclusive only to Patreon followers where we’ll answer your questions about us, Japan, the Japanese or English languages, and whatever else you want to chat about! This chat should be a lot smaller than the hangouts open to all our subscribers, which means your questions are more likely to be seen and answered!

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For $25 a month you get all of the above, plus you can suggest a challenge video idea to us! Everyone at this level and above will vote, and once every two months we'll pick one of your top two voted ideas and make a video! (Examples include things like wasabi roulette, eating strange Japanese snacks, Pokemon pictionary, etc!)

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For $50 a month you get all of the above, plus we'll send you a hand-written post card from somewhere in Japan every month you continue your support! :D

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2 patrons (Limited 2 of 4 left)
For $100 a month, you get all of the above, plus either or both of us (your choice) will hold a one on one private skype/google hangout chat with you for one hour every month you continue your support! We can try to answer your questions, give you advice about your own YouTube channel, talk about learning Japanese or English, or just chat! (It's not that we think our time is worth $100, but logistically we don't have enough time to chat with everyone who wants to, so this reward level guarantees we'll make the time for you!) NOTE: The chat must be held at a reasonable Japan time!

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For $150 a month, you get all of the above (minus limited), plus we’ll send you a box of Japanese snacks (and maybe small Japanese souvenirs) in the mail every two months you hold this reward level!

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For $200 a month, you get all of the above, plus we’ll make a video on a topic you want to hear about! Topic must be reasonable and related to our channel. ;) You can send us a message first so we can work out if your topic is feasible! (NOTE: Product/service sponsoring is NOT offered through Patreon rewards!)

Pledge $250.00 or more per month

For $250 a month, you get all of the above (minus limited), PLUS the best reward of all--a genuine hand-crafted item from a Japanese craftsman/woman once every TWO months you hold this reward level. We'll give you a list of items you can choose from, and once you select it, we'll order it directly from a craftsman we've worked with. Because some items may need to be crafted, the delivery time for this reward level could be up to two months. Additionally, some items may be unavailable due to stock levels. Current crafts being offered: Shippo yaki, Gifu fan
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