g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social historian of scenography
interests: the material, manufacture & manufacturers of spectacle (intermezzi, machines, festivals, feasts, fireworks); history of magnificence from below
before I was ill: choreographer, production designer, theatrical engineer
Emily Warren @letsbanquet.bsky.social Studies food culture and premodern Japan. Writing a book on the history of Japanese cuisine in the 8th through 13th centuries.
https://historybento.beehiiv.com
jon l pitt @jonlpitt.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Japanese Environmental Humanities at UC Irvine. Plants, music, lit/film. Download my book for free: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501780950/botanical-imagination/
ADRIAN IBARRA @enlamirade.bsky.social Historiador e Internacionalista. Trasplantado Renal. (Espacio dedicado a Literatura asiática y japonesa)
Aya Homei (保明綾) @homeiaya.bsky.social Historian of science and medicine in modern Japan, Japanese Studies U Manchester. Science for Governing Japan’s Population (CUP, 2023).
De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Asian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social https://www.hannah-shepherd.com/
Akiko Yamagata 山形亜紀子 @graphiteediting.bsky.social Freelance editor, humanities & soc sci, esp. E Asian studies. Bilingual EN JP (+ bungo). UCSD copyediting instructor. I help scholars make their mark.
Norma @gc14.bsky.social Historian. East Asian Buddhism.
Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History @bcricciinstitute.bsky.social Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College.
利瑪竇中西文化歷史研究所.
https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/centers/ricci.html
Ashley Honeysett @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social 2024 Miami University Press Novella Prize Winner. She/her. Evanston, IL, USA. ashleyhoney.substack.com
The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social https://digitalorientalist.com
Dedicated to discovering and sharing insights on digital humanities in an inclusive environment! Join us・انضم إلينا・参加しませんか・bize katıl・kasance tare damu. 🗃️ 🌐
Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
Merle Kartscher @merlekar.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Harvard. Japanese colonialism in Korea, Taiwan and China; women‘s and gender history.
Ellen Tilton-Cantrell @ellentc.bsky.social Developmental editor & workshop facilitator for scholarly writers. PhD in Japanese lit. She/her. Based in Minneapolis. www.tiliaeditorial.com
Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social Official account for the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Sciences Po.
https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/
https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/
https://histecon.fr/en/
Michelle Kyoko Crowson @michellekcrowson.bsky.social Writer-Translator, Asian American, Comparative Literature PhD. Recovering academic making a living in alt-ac spaces.
Nina Farizova @ninafarizova.bsky.social Visiting Research Fellow, Nichibunken
Kyoto, Japan
Colum Graham @clmgrhm.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Agrarian studies, politics, history.
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
Michael Ium @michael-ium.bsky.social Postdoc @erc-tibschol.bsky.social in the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Former Postdoc @uoft.bsky.social
PhD @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
Co-Editor: @thecjbs.bsky.social
A historian of Ganden Monastery & the early Geluk tradition in Tibet
Hannah Osborne @hannahosborne.bsky.social Japan Foundation Lecturer in Japanese Literature, University of East Anglia
Tanya Barnett @tanyanb.bsky.social 📝: University of Hawai'i at Mānoa・🏫: UTokyo
東京・scholar of adventure narratives in early 20th c. Japanese poetry/prose・近代日本文学/大衆文化史の冒険家・corgi dog mom
Toru Momii @torumomii.bsky.social Music theorist at Harvard. 音楽理論、越境史、現代音楽、ポピュラー音楽の研究。Interculturality, race, Asian/American performance, gagaku, popular music. He/him
Nancy Foasberg @nfoasberg.bsky.social ScholComm librarian, board gamer, birder, lurker. She/her
Francesca Pizarro @francescapizarro.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japan Studies at Colorado College. 
Donna Kwon @hallyulikedonna.bsky.social Korean/Asian/American music and culture aca-fan/multi-stan. Professor of ethnomusicology. Author of Stepping in the Madang (2024, Wesleyan) and trying desperately to maintain hope in humanity. CSIS US-Korea NextGen Scholar 24-25.
Ryotaro Takahashi @ryotarot.bsky.social Associate Professor at Keio university.
Fiscal sociology, history of public finance in postwar Japan.
HP: https://researchmap.jp/RyotaroTakahashi?lang=en
Noriko A @nejibana.bsky.social History, Japan, Asia. Thinking about aquariums.
Nirupama Chandrasekhar @niruchandra.bsky.social UCSB PhD student, studying Okinawan tourism, colonialism, indigeneity, and public memory. 
Michael Toole @mtoole.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies. He/Him. All Views/Likes are my own. 
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.
Felicity Stone-Richards @felicitystone-r.bsky.social Student scholar and activist | UCSB, PoliSci PhD student | NE Asian geopolitics, Japanese and Afro-Diasporic political thought
Jean Tsui @jeantsui.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at CUNY. Studies affect, emotion, and late imperial Chinese intellectual history.
Author of Affective Betrayal: Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in Late Qing China (SUNY, 2024)
Kjell Ericson @kjelldericson.bsky.social Historian teaching and researching at intersections of environment, technology, and Japan @ Kyoto University.
Desmond Sham @desmondsham.bsky.social ✤Assistant Professor in Cultural and Creative Industries @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
✤Cultural Studies | #PostcolonialStudies | #CulturalHeritage | #Memory | Urban Culture | Cultural Identity | #Sinophone | E&SE Asia
✤Views are my own
Christopher P. Hood @hoodcp.bsky.social フッド・クリス
http://linktr.ee/hoodcp
Author of novels and non-fiction books on symbols in Japan, shinkansen, the JAL123 plane crash, and books related to Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social Professor, music theory, ethnomusicology, Japan studies. Research in music & social movements, popular music, music & language. Author, Protest Music after Fukushima; Editor, Oxford Handbook of Protest Music, 33-1/3 Japan. Views my own. linktr.ee/nmanabe
Candice N. Wilson @cnwilson.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media. Lover of East Asian Cinema, Horror and Representations of Race and Difference.
Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social Historian at Knox College specializing in transnational histories of modern Japan and East Asia, digital humanities, and virtual heritage. 
Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social Assistant Professor at GIS, Hosei University; Ph.D. from GSAPS, Waseda University. Political Scientist - Japanese Politics
Chris Slaby @cjslaby.bsky.social Scholar, teacher, writer, earth human person (he/him/his). Art + history: Native American and Indigenous Studies; the environmental humanities; media, culture, and representation. Food and music, too, though those are more passions than subjects of study.
Louise Edwards @ledw.bsky.social Academic, Asia-China-Australia
Linda Zampol D'Ortia @lindazampol.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher (Ca' Foscari Venice).
History of Europe-Asia relations, religions in Asia, history of emotions.
https://lzdo.carrd.co
https://unive.academia.edu/LindaZampolDOrtia
Michael Stanley-Baker 徐源 @mstanleybaker.bsky.social Asst. Prof Nanyang Technological U
#Sinology #ChineseMedicine #ChineseReligion #MedicalHumanities #DigitalHumanities #histsci #histmed
https://tinyurl.com/msbatntu
http://polyglotasianmedicine.com
Raditya Nuradi. @radityanuradi.bsky.social Ph.D. in Japanese Religions. Scholar of Japan, Religion, and Popular Culture. Project Assistant Professor at the National Museum of Japanese History. 特任助教. 歴博.
Hanna McGaughey @hmcgaughey.bsky.social Philologist of pre-modern Japanese performing arts and teacher of undergrads.
Ray Matsumoto @raymatsumoto.bsky.social History PhD Student at UCLA | MA Graduate of History at WSU | Modern Japanese History, War Responsibility/Guilt, Memory Studies
Honghong Tinn @honghongtinn.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine & Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
https://amazon.com/author/honghongtinn
Alexandra Yan （閻・アレクザンドラ） @asyan916.bsky.social Modern Japanese literature and Comparative Literature scholar
Currently interested colonial Japanese language literature, especially in Korea and Taiwan, and in all things otherwise imperial and anti-imperial.
UCI doctoral candidate 
Anoma van der Veere @anomav.bsky.social Correspondent NOS & NRC, senior (Japan) researcher Leiden Asia Centre. In Tokyo.
Yulia Ryzhik @yryzhik.bsky.social English professor in early modern literature (University of Toronto), runner, birder, letterpress printer, canoe tripper, cat lover
Sabina Knight 桑稟華 @spoem.bsky.social * #Chinese #Literature: A Very Short Introduction * (Oxford)
& *The Heart of Time* (Harvard)
Translator & Interpreter: En/Fr/繁中/简中/Ru
雙語 @SabinaKnight.bsky.social
Care ethicist @FairbankCenter
#PIPfellow @NCUSCR.bsky.social
Prof Emerita WLT @SmithCollege
William Andrews @william-andrews.bsky.social Working on: sociocultural history, radicalism, theatre, countercultures, New Left, memory, anti-Olympics, urbanism. Book on Adachi Masao out September 1. PhD on 1960s Japan in progress. https://www.williamandrewswriter.com
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)
Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social Historian of Japan | Associate Professor @ucf.bsky.social | author of Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan @universitypress.cambridge.org | 日文研「外国人」研究員 (2027) | Ph.D. @UChicago
Personal website: tadashiishikawa.com
Dr. Amy Matthewson @amymatthewson.bsky.social Historian of China in the British Imagination, 19th and early 20th centuries, Visual and Material Cultures. Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham
Ruoyun Bai 多伦多媒体研究白若云 @ruoyunbai.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies/Comparative Literature, Univ. of Toronto, working on Chinese Media, Culture and Society. Author of "Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics" and co-editor of 3 books. Writing a book on scandals in China.
Mareike Wulff @mareikewulff.bsky.social social-& cultural anthropologist / ethnographer / bhutan & himalayan studies / buddhist studies / endangered languages documentation / material culture/ visual anthropology / uni of sydney/
https://sydney.academia.edu/MareikeWulff
Laurie Raye @ohmwu.bsky.social Sanskrit, Japanese and Classical Chinese • Writer • Editor Gwyllion Magazine • They/them • ☭ • Fandom account over at @azemwu.bsky.social
Not interested in becoming a brand, here simply for community and authenticity.
Raji Steineck @raji-steineck.bsky.social Chair of Japanology at UZH. Philosopher. In love with language and music. Believes in the complementarity of the sciences and the humanities. Views my own.
fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social Political Science & Asian/Asian American Studies, UConn, studying Asian American political thought & East Asian science fiction. https://linktr.ee/fredleept
Elke Papelitzky @elkelitzky.bsky.social Associate professor of early modern Chinese history at the University of Oslo working on maps and maritime history
Kai Mitsuru Wilkin @kaimitsuru.bsky.social Researcher of race and multiraciality with a focus on Japaneseness and Asianness and their transpositions in so-called Canada.
@tatamiroom.bsky.social
Barbara R. Ambros @bambros.bsky.social Professor of East Asian Religions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Animals and religion, gender and sexuality studies, place and space.
Dr. Emma Yasui @ponopls.bsky.social PhD, archaeology | Starch, foodways, Jomon | Pop culture & diaspora | Cultural consultant in TTRPGs | emmakeikoyasui at gmail dot com | she/her, 🇨🇦(mixed 🇯🇵)
Orion Klautau @orionklautau.bsky.social Associate Professor, Tohoku University (Japan). Buddhism & Historiography, Shotoku Taishi & Kamakura New Buddhism, the Occult & Japan.
Yuta Hashimoto @yuta1984.bsky.social Digital Humanities scholar/developer. 歴史系プログラマ。
Jesse Drian @jdrian.bsky.social Japanese reference librarian. Scholar of premodern Japanese religions and literature. Dabbles in DH. This account reflects my private views and does not represent the views of my employer.
Abigail MacBain @aimacbain.bsky.social Premodern Japan scholar at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in early Japanese overseas relations and Buddhism as a medium for global awareness. Not wholly sure how this side of social media works. Overshares dog pictures. 
kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social Curator of Asian Art at Princeton University Art Museum プリンストン大学美術館・アジア美術担当学芸員 they/them
Susan Dine @susandine.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Vanderbilt University. Art historian studying arts of Japan (medieval Buddhist works and 18th-19th century Ainu works). Museum Studies scholar.- M Marnie Anderson @msanders.bsky.social Historian of Modern Japan at Smith College
Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social Torontonian, historian of medieval Japan. Posts about cats, cooking, umami, gardening, and gin making. Sushi, too
Corey Noxon @noxon.bsky.social R-GIRO Assistant Professor @ Ritsumeikan. Prehistoric archaeology, demography, mobility, & 3D applications in archaeology. Archaeology stories with a focus on Japan. He/him
ArchaeoJapan on that other app...
Kiyonori Nagasaki @knagasaki.bsky.social 永崎研宣/ Intl. Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan/ Professor of LIS in Keio University
Jonathan Lopez-Vera @jonathanlopezvera.com http://JonathanLopezVera.com / http://HistoriaJaponesa.com
Dr. en Història Japonesa, profe d'universitat, escric llibres, mato ninjes. Baixista punkrock jubilat. Faig crossfit regular. Variadito.
Elijah @tokusei.bsky.social Jaded idealist. Ponderer of the past.
Laura García Gascón @lauraggascon.bsky.social PhD Researcher at @eui-eu.bsky.social | Early Modern • Cultural History • Gender studies | A woman writing about women who wrote
Wonhee Cho @nomadism.bsky.social Historian of the Mongol empire; Associate Professor at Yonsei University
https://wonheecho.net
Tori Montrose @torimontrose.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at #FurmanUniversity
Japanese and Global Buddhism, Buddhist education and modernization, new religious movements.
Nature 🌲comedy nerd 🤓 dance parties 💃🏻podcasts 🎧 reformed pessimist 😌✨
Zev Handel @zevhandel.bsky.social Author of 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙮 (2019) & 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝘼𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝘼𝙨𝙞𝙖 (@uwapress, 2025). Chinese characters, writing systems, historical phonology, etc.
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753027/chinese-characters-across-asia/
Ashley Hawkins @mangalibrarian.bsky.social School Librarian, PhD Student & Manga Reviewer
Co-author of Manga Goes to School: Cultivating Engagement and Inclusion in K–12 Settings.
Talk to me about manga, neurodivergence, and student-centered libraries!
Married to @fortninety.bsky.social.
Nathaniel M. Smith @nathanielmsmith.bsky.social Anthropologist of Japan @ Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. 立命館大学国際関係学部准教授。Writing/research on rightwing movements/politics/culture, US-Japan relations, and urban studies.
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social Archaeologist. This gun's for hire on small finds. Educator. Iron Age/ early med material culture . Likes horses and old stabby pointy things. "Ain't nothin' like me - except me" (Raccoon, 2014). Usually optimistic. She/her/thon wan. Personal views only
Rebecca Suter @reberebe.bsky.social I teach and research modern and contemporary Japanese literature and popular culture at the university of Oslo.
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)
Quirin Press @quirinpress.bsky.social Small independent scholarly press dedicated to Asian Studies, Poetics, Cultural Studies, Aesthetics, & sometimes more…
Posts by OB 😎C.onstantly E.spying O.verleaf
Home: quirinpress.com
Ko-fi shop (±free downloads): https://ko-fi.com/quirinpress
Philip Brasor @philipbrasor.bsky.social Japan media watcher, blogger of Japanese housing
philipbrasor.com
catforehead.com
Takami Nieda @tnieda.bsky.social Instructor at Seattle Central College
JP-ENTranslator of GO, Finger Bone,The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park, The Lucky Ride. NEXT: Traveling Practice
Info: https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/takami-nieda/
Jon Mitchell 🏴 ジョン・ミッチェル @jonmitchell.bsky.social Author, journalist with Okinawa Times. "Why are we in Okinawa? A History of Violence" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026). 沖縄タイムス特約通信員。米国環境ジャーナリスト協会 出版賞。石橋湛山記念 早稲田ジャーナリズム大賞。著書「『情報自由法』で社会を変える！」岩波書店, etc https://www.jonmitchellinjapan.com
Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social Santaku Dynamics tachi-class combat doll & Your Fave Historydyke (PhD UPitt '17). Public historian. She/彼女. 暴れん坊姫様. Anatolian altersex bimbo by Daoist praxis. BEY/PHL/SDJ->PGH. Byline@Unseen Japan. 八幡信者. Opinions mine.
➡️ http://riverside-wings.com
Joseph Henares @josephhenares.bsky.social ABD @Princeton. 外国人共同研究者 @UnivKyoto. Philosophy and intellectual history of modern Japan. 陳清風
Emily @suika.bsky.social PhD candidate at @unileiden.bsky.social. Editor at @tokyoreview.net. Freelance journalist & translator. Volunteer lexicographer. Photographer. Tanka poet. Human.
研究者。記者。翻訳者。編者。日蘭・蘭日辞書編集者。歌人。写真家。人間。
Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Calgary. *Japan, religion, & counterculture. Forthcoming book, "The Secret World: An Ethnography of Shugendo in Northeastern Japan" w/ UNC Press slated for publication in Nov. 2025.