Indie Biz, Underground Music, and Serendipitous Disasters

An impromptu conversation on akiya, rock and roll, and tsunamis

When I agreed to sit down with the YouTube channel Datsusara Gaijin, I figured we’d be talking business. Akiyaz, vacant houses, foreign investment, and why I think rural Japan is being misunderstood by both locals and outsiders. And we did talk about all of that. How to work with municipalities, the barriers to digital infrastructure, and why risk in th…