Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
Atsushi Uchida @atsushi-uchida.bsky.social Ancient Japan, read with data.
Historian at Kyushu University | Text mining & Buddhist ritual
Developing Quantitative Historical Source Studies.
Substack👉🏻 https://substack.com/@atsushiuchida
Lachlan Musicman @datakid.bsky.social Systems - computer and otherwise, data science, political and cultural theory. Book reader, music listener, D'n'D participant, traveler.
音叉堂ブックあとりえ @onsabkat.bsky.social 「もしあなたが読みたい本がまだ書かれていないのなら、それはあなたが書くべき本なのです」──トニ・モリスン
まだ訳されていない作品や、十分に紹介されてこなかった名作を翻訳し、案内。
音叉堂ブックあとりえ──文学の余白を旅する、小さな工房です。
https://www.amazon.co.jp/kindle-dbs/author?ref=dbs_G_A_C&asin=B0F7XV48H2
Tomás Grau de Pablos @tomgaar.bsky.social Él. Crítico y profesor de Game Studies y estudios culturales japoneses. https://diariodejuegos.blog
Laura @lauchan.bsky.social Cofundadora de @Japonismo y @saliendodonut 📚Autora de 3 libros sobre Japón (Anaya) 🇯🇵TEI, máster EAO y profesora de Estudios Japoneses
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
Adrian Caravaca (黒い服の男) @adriancaravaca.com 🗣 Català, Castellano, English, Italiano, 日本語.
⛩️🎮 PhD Candidate in Cultural and Game Studies.
👺 Japanese Culture through Videogames Sensei at @espaidaruma.com.
✍️ Writing at @kaibun.bsky.social.
🌐 https://adriancaravaca.com.
@jstudiesleipzig.bsky.social @jstudiesleipzig.bsky.social Japanese Studies @ Leipzig University https://www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/ostasiatisches-institut/japanologie
Japanese Studies Vienna @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social Japanese Studies @ University of Vienna (https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/en/)
u:japan lectures series since 2020 (https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures)
Science Communication & Press Service
(https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/en/contact/#press)
BungakuReportEN(文学通信 海外版) @bungakureporten.bsky.social Publisher. Mainly tweets about news, books, events related to Japanese studies. Japanese account→
https://bsky.app/profile/bungakureport.bsky.social
国内外の日本研究・文化関連の情報を収集・発信。出版社です。担当は渡辺。
Aaron Gerow @dengerow.bsky.social Prof of Film and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale. Scholar of Japanese and other East Asian film and media (TV, manga, etc.). Likes rakugo, cats, and cycling. Views are my own. イェール大学教授、日本と他の東アジア映画とメディアの研究者。落語、猫と自転車。
Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social Professor of Japanese Studies- University of Manchester; Interested in religion; Japan; media; violence; religious minorities; fear; temporalities; belonging; food. PI "Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities" http://tinyurl.com/36rnykdy
Nikkei Asia (Official) @asia.nikkei.com The latest headlines from Nikkei Asia.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp News, features and commentary from the oldest (est. 1897) and most widely read English-language media outlet in Japan.
JT staff on Bluesky: https://jtim.es/bskysp
Our newsletters: https://jtime.es/newsletters
Elsewhere: jtim.es/m/social
Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social Mostly post links to primary sources on East Asian history. A big fan of the internet archive and its amazing collections. moss-on-stone at protonmail dot com.
渡部宏樹 Kohki Watabe @kohkiwatabe.bsky.social 筑波大学マレーシア校助教|『ファンたちの市民社会』(河出書房新社、2025年)、共訳書ヘンリー・ジェンキンズ『コンヴァージェンス・カルチャー』(晶文社、2021年)、ダニエル・ハーバート『ビデオランド』(作品社、2021年)|Ph. D. in Cinema and Media Studies (USC)
IIAS @iias.bsky.social International Institute for Asian Studies | www.iias.asia
岩波書店 @iwanami.co.jp 1913年創業の総合出版社です。2023年5月開始。
Iwanami Shoten, Publishers.
François Roussel @francoisroussel.bsky.social 🇫🇷Élu des Français du Japon🇯🇵 (Conseiller des Français de l’étranger) N’hésitez pas à me contacter.在外フランス人選挙区日本選出代議員.Elected Representative of French Nationals in Japan.
Christina Laffin @christinalaffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of British Columbia. She/her.
Eejanaika @eejanaika.bsky.social Un portrait du Japon, de trois-quart vers la gauche
Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Kelly Chan @kafkaesquekelly.bsky.social MA @ McGill East Asian Studies. BA @ UBC History. Interested in modern Japanese tourism, film and media studies, and post-WWII Japanese horror cinema.
Christopher Scholz @kurisutofa.bsky.social literature, Japanese lit, silent films, R&D consulting, journalism, interwebs, and some other things (he/him)
Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social I’m Russell and local history is my hobby.
Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social Permanent resident of Japan. Neuro-affirming parent. Amateur photographer of a certain age. Shitamachi supremacist. Sober 19yrs. Survivor. I write stuff sometimes, but don’t tell anyone. 日本語👌
Profile: @nakimushiart.bsky.social
Modern Japan History Association @modernjapanhist.bsky.social A member-run, non-profit organization open to anyone interested in modern Japan or Japanese history.
mjha.org
Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social Historian of Japan and East Asia. I only post extremely interesting things.
Author of "Japan at the Crossroads," out now from Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984424
清水唯一朗 Yuichiro SHIMIZU @ys-jpd.bsky.social Professor at the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, Japan. Politics, History, Japanese Studies, Oral history.
慶應義塾大学総合政策学部教授(日本政治史)
Web: https://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yuichiro/
Twitter: ys_jpd /Instragram: ys_jpd /Facebook: yuichiro.sfc
David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social Historian. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire (2018), Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). Co-director, https://bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Torquil Duthie @torquil.bsky.social Japanese literature at UCLA. Author of Man’yoshu and the Imperial Imagination, 万葉集と帝国的想像, The Kokinshu: Selected Poems. From Cádiz.
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social historian of japan/korea/the environment | words: davidfedman.org | digital archive: JapanAirRaids.org | film: https://papercityfilm.com/
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
Kjell Ericson @kjelldericson.bsky.social Historian teaching and researching at intersections of environment, technology, and Japan @ Kyoto University.
Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social bibliophile, minimalist, literary historian of subcultures. "Professor McKnight is very caring and knowledgeable. However she picked more eccentric pieces of literature and film to discuss." 2026~Long Take: Kurosawa Akira as World Cinéphile (Minnesota)
Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social I teach Modern Japanese Literature and Media at Waseda University.
Imperial Japanese Navy History @ijnhistory.bsky.social Documenting the history of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1868-1945.
Nihonshi: A Japanese History Podcast @nihonshipodcast.bsky.social Welcome to Nihonshi: A Japanese History Podcast. I am Nick Bright, scholar of East Asian Buddhism. On this show, we will be discussing topics in Japanese history. Join us every Wednesday for a new episode on all podcast platforms. linktr.ee/nihonshipodcast
Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, and Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto, Postdoc at UTokyo.
Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social JPP is a global information hub and digital repository that promotes research & teaching in Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders. https://japanpastandpresent.org/
Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cyclist, marathon runner, train traveller. Based in Newcastle and York. Osbaldwick cricket club cap no.247
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Oleg Benesch @olegb.bsky.social History prof at the University of York. Most recently Research Partner for "Samurai" at the British Museum. Also working on castles, masculinity, drugs, sport, emotions, comics, medievalism, and public history. Too many hobbies.
www.olegbenesch.com
Dana Mirsalis @danamirsalis.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at Pacific University. Modern and contemporary Japanese religion (especially Shinto), history, and gender.
Kenichi Sato / 佐藤賢一 @ken1sato.bsky.social Historian of Traditional Japanese Mathematics
Sayaka Chatani @sayakachatani.bsky.social Historian at NUS. A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan (Stanford UP, 2026)
Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire: primary sources translated for teaching purposes -> japaneseempire.info
Morgan Pitelka @mpitelka.bsky.social Historian of Japan, distinguished professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, specialist in material culture, urban history, environmental history; coeditor, Journal of Japanese Studies
永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara @hiromunagahara.bsky.social MIT historian of Modern Japan
MIT教員・近代日本史
https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/
Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles
Public transit-appreciator and photo-taker
European Association for Japanese Studies @eajs.eu Bluesky account of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), Europe's largest association of Japanese studies scholars.
For more info, visit http://eajs.eu/
RT ≠ endorsement.
The Journal of Japanese Studies @jjs-jrnl.bsky.social
NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social Your guide to Japanese library and information resources. 📚💻
http://nccjapan.org/
Lindsay Nelson-Santos @newsfromnihon.bsky.social Japanese cinema (especially horror), Japanese popular culture. Book: Circulating Fear. Film reviews at eigafile.com, CV at lindsaynelson.jp. she/her
Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities: UCLA & Waseda University reimagining the Japanese humanities for the world.
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures @sainsbury-institute.org Promoting top research on Japanese visual culture | Affiliated with UEA | 🎖️ Japan Foundation Award 2024 | Art, history & culture
https://linktr.ee/Sainsbury_Institute
Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/
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