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We are a single mom and her 2-year-old son living in Japan, sharing our journey through documentary-style videos. Our channel focuses on:
👩‍👦 Life as a Single Mother in Japan
An honest and heartfelt look at the ups and downs of raising a child as a single parent in Japan.
🌱 Weekly Life Updates
Follow our simple Japanese meals, based on the traditional Japanese Diet. We cook and eat food in the way that people in Japan used to do around 400 years ago, before Japan had a mafor Western influence.
🍴 Japanese Macrobiotic Recipes
Learn about shokuyō (Japanese food therapy) and healthy, balanced meals inspired by traditional Japanese cooking.
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Profile: Yuu
After the suicide of her beloved mother, her heart shattered. Suffering from severe depression, she seeked to escape reality, then moved to Byron Bay, Australia. She met a Spanish girl there and learned through their conversations that she had also lost a close family member to suicide. For the first time, Yuu found someone who understood her pain, realizing that she was not alone that there are other people who experience the same, and understand her completely. This encounter led to a profound paradigm shift, instantly lifting the depression she had suffered from for many years.
Yuu became so grateful for the ability to have conversation in English, which made her interaction with the Spanish girl possible. Yuu then believed that by using English and sharing life experiences with various people not only from our own country, but from all over the world could help heal our hearts, no matter what kind of pain we have.
Driven by this belief, Yuu incurred a debt of nearly 100,000 US dollars and opened "English Conversation café and bar, Cafe Byron Bay" in Asakusa, Tokyo in 2013. This establishment, where Japanese people learning English and foreign tourists/residenses visiting Asakusa mingled, quickly became a famous "Borderless restaurant." It also provided opportunities to connect with around 20,000 Japanese people who wished to speak English, and the café became a catalyst for many to change their lives, including international marriages, overseas relocations, and job changes to desired workplaces.
Furthermore, to offer services themed around 'Meeting people from around the world,' which had not existed in Japan before, Yuu founded Ekklesia Co., Ltd. in 2019. In 2020, she launched the "Global Community Byron Bay," an online salon that combines real and online interactions, helping people make friends worldwide and learn to speak English. With the mission of "Helping people heal through the encounters they gain, by using the power of English," she continued her activities.
By having her first child, 'Nuh' and reaching the 10-year milestone of her business in 2022, Yuu decided to close the company and stay close to her son as a stay at home mum.
In May 2024, she decided to start this UA-cam channnel for an experiment, to see if the legend, Nanboku Mizuno's theory of 'One’s Fate Depends on One’s Diet' actually works or not. As well as the opportunity to practice 'Traditonal Japanese diet' along the way, and share all the amazing recipes that ancient Japanese people used to use a lont time ago.
*Introduction video (About us)
ua-cam.com/video/r_3XNso6k0k/v-deo.html