CHEF YUJI HARAGUCHI

Yuji Haraguchi is the founder and owner of OKONOMI//YUJI Ramen as well as Osakana, Brooklyn and Osakana, East Village in NYC. Originally working at a Japanese wholesale fish company, Yuji built his companies from scratch with the goal of educating people aboutJapanese food and culture as well as introducing new Japanese trends. He is a big proponentof theMottainai philosophy (Mot-thai-nay), a Japanese concept of being mindful about waste.Yuji is also the go-to Japanese cuisine expert on Bon Appetit Magazine’s YouTube channel,selected as a representative chef to do how-to videos on cooking Japanese food.