Updated On: 07 May, 2025 10:38 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
If YouTube is indeed the new TV, who then is the new Mihir Virani? Hey, how about Mayo, the ‘Japani’!

Mayo Japan, a YouTuber who introduces Japanese culture in Hindi and teaches the Japanese language. PIC/X/@mayo_hindi
Mayo Japan’, I suspect, has an on-off button in her head. Once you switch on the video camera, pointing it towards her, she herself switches on, almost simultaneously!
It’s probably a personality type. And it’s her YouTube personality that she promptly shares on my video, adorably gesturing with her hands to introduce herself first: “Namaste, mein Hindi bolne wali Japani ladki hoon…
(I’m a Hindi-speaking Japanese girl…).”