Leo Sakaguchi likes non-mainstream things. One of the few thousand native Esperanto speakers in the world, he DJs internationally, ice skates on a professional level, and advocates for greater renewable energy adoption.
We discussed:
- How Leo’s Japanese dad and Polish mom met, and their marriage on the seventh date
- Growing up speaking multiple languages and not realizing how unusual that was
- Being an outlier in a small Bavarian village
- Student life at Tokyo University
- Multicultural DJing techniques
- Meeting another Polish-Japanese DJ who grew up in Germany and is also named Leo
- Working at a Japanese conglomerate in Germany
- Leo’s startup
- What links miso, żurek, and German beer
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