Chris Broad

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British youtuber, filmmaker and cheese enthusiast.

Based in Tokyo Japan, Chris is a former English as a Second Language teacher.

Born in 1990 in Maidstone, England, Chris studied English and business at the University of Kent. In August 2012, he moved to Japan through the JET Programme and taught English for three years. Where he was assigned to Yamagata Prefecture. He began making videos the same year he arrived in Japan.

He later lived in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, until 2023, when he relocated to Tokyo with his fiancée, Sharla Hinskens, a Canadian YouTuber known as Sharmeleon who vlogs about life in Japan. Chris occasionally appears on her channel @SharlaInJapan.

Chris has been making content for over 13 years now. He co-hosted a charity cyclethon with fellow YouTuber CDawgVA, raising over $1 million, interviewed Oscar-nominated actor Ken Watanabe, and spent a week with Japan’s rock star Hyde. He is also the author of the #1 Sunday Times bestselling book Abroad in Japan and recently opened a bar called Lost in Shibuya.