John Daub, creator and producer of the ONLY in JAPAN series on YouTube, one of the top Japan travel channels with an audience of over 1.5 million subscribers, has moved to a new YouTube channel.

Whether they are avatar-utilizing virtual singers, frantic Hatsune-Miku-style Vocaloid producers or genre-bending bands, 122 Japanese artists participating in the three-daylong YouTube Music Weekend ...

Japan’s YouTube ecosystem is still a deep, shimmering rabbit hole in 2025. Past the hyper-edited J-vloggers, the studio-lit mukbang empires and the corporate-backed “creator units,” there’s a stranger ...

The rise in English-speaking foreigners living long-term in Japan plus the current increase in tourism has led to a new wave of content creators in the country, mostly on social media sites like ...

Since the launch of YouTube in 2005, vlogging took social media by storm as millennials started documenting everything from makeup tutorials to comedic skits and their daily lives. Vlogging in Japan, ...

A survey in Japan found that the most frequently used social media platforms were Line and YouTube, which were both considerably ahead of X and Instagram. People of all ages are glued to their ...

Naomi Yamakawa has been promoted to the role of Country Managing Director for YouTube Japan, marking a significant milestone in her professional journey. She shared the announcement on LinkedIn, ...