Chapter 13. Interview: Freaklabs’ Chris “Akiba” Wang

Akiba talks about moving out of the Tokyo HackerSpace and into the Hackerfarm.

John Baichtal: You were at Tokyo HackerSpace, and then…how long were you there? Are you still a member?

Chris Wang: Nah, not really. I can’t make it out there. I live an hour and a half outside of Tokyo now. It was me and another founder of Tokyo HackerSpace, and then a rice farmer. He also was in Tokyo HackerSpace in the beginning, too. The three of us got together and started a farm, actually. My friend was a rice farmer out here. At that time, I was into cheesemaking. I was like, “Well, OK. It’d be nice to have access to raw milk or cheese.”

At first, it started kind of innocuously and ...

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