The Kyoto Connection ⛩️ @thekyotoconnection.com 一日一善 ichinichi-ichizen. I've been transforming Japan’s soundscapes into evocative electronic journeys. Since 2005. 🐣 Father / 🎹 Musician / ✍️Writer / 💡 Creative soul - Visit my shrine 💻 thekyotoconnection.com
Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social 
Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social Scholar and translator, modern Japanese literature and culture; I also write fiction, music criticism, and sundry other things. Plus the occasional sumo and baseball post. Faculty at University of Chicago. www.bourdaghs.com
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/
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/
Kevin O'Shea @madformaple.bsky.social Canuck 🇨🇦 living in Asia. Podcaster - host of Supernatural Japan Podcast 🎙️ 👺 - folklore, paranormal, travel, photography 🇯🇵 Currently based in 🇨🇳!
Nicky @japanicky.bsky.social Came to Japan for a year or two in 1994. Still here. Scottish. English school owner. 
Kevin Newman @kevinnewman.bsky.social Edo denizen
Blue Ridge raised. UNC / 関西外国語大学 / Fletcher School
Early onset curmudgeon
忙中閑あり
Kansai Culture @kansaiculture.com Kansai blogger, Kansai Photos- J @jenlteeter.bsky.social @jenlteeter.bsky.social
Michael Potter @smogonthetyne.bsky.social The future is but clay in our hands…
Heide Imai @smallurbanspace.bsky.social Professor, Senshu University Tokyo 准教授 専修大学 Academic/Author/ Architect/ Art/ Japan/ Asia/ Pacific Rim Cities/ Urban/ Urban-Rural/ Culture/ Creativity/ Social Capital/ Resilience/ Sustainability/ https://heideimai.com
Japan Station @japanstation.bsky.social Maps, trains, stations, convenient transit hotels, transport connections and city guides. Japan Station guide to transportation.
Anton K @binderdonedat.bsky.social 
T. Seifman @toranosukev.bsky.social Historian of Japanese & Luchuan (Ryukyuan) arts and culture. Person. Personal, not professional, account. I travel from time to time.
They/he. Based in Kyoto.
Being Kansai @beingkansai.bsky.social From the Bronx, now based in Kansai. Sharing Info, sights & news from Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Hyogo, & nearby areas. Also on Youtube, Instagram and Threads. 
Joshua Mellin @joshuamellin.bsky.social Writer / Photographer | Published @cnn.com, @nytimes.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc. | Covering #travel #music #art #sports | http://instagram.com/joshuamellin joshuamellin.com
Charles McClean @cmcclean.bsky.social 📚 Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale
👦🏻👨🏻👴🏻 Politics of Age
🇯🇵 Japanese Politics
Amos @amos.io Aussie living in southern Japan. I review audio gear and teach Japanese kids how to beat me up in Aikido. Old school enough that emoji are still weird to me.
Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies @ Penn. Books: Drawing on Tradition (2012), Faking Liberties (2019); New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025); Animating Action (coming Dec 2026); Difficult Subjects (coming Fall 2027). More: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social historian of japan/korea/the environment | words: davidfedman.org | digital archive: JapanAirRaids.org | film: https://papercityfilm.com/
Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social Japanese politics analyst; author of The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan; Chicago-born Cubs fan now living in DC; marathoner.
Substack: Observingjapan.substack.com.
Business: www.japanforesight.com
Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
Phillip Jackson @pjacksonmusic.bsky.social Kyoto based Brit making music on guitar, and writing about history and mystery.
Site : www.hiddenpathskyoto.com
でぃーぷ京都 @deepkyotojapan.bsky.social でぃーぷ京都へおこしやす！子供の頃より京都に住み、京都在住歴は20年近く。定番の観光スポットから、地元民しか知り得ない超穴場レストランや隠れ家ホテルまで包み隠さずご紹介します。
Craig Mod @craigmod.com Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years.
Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!!
shop.specialprojects.jp
craigmod.com
Mikael Leppä @mikke.bsky.social Designer of products, services and design teams. Part of a Finnish-Japanese household calling Norway home.
Jessica Iragne @wirejess.bsky.social 東京に住んでいるフランス人。🇯🇵🇫🇷 AIM会員︎︎︎︎ ☁︎︎ Français, English, 日本語 🙆♀️ 👍 ※ #あいみょん ※ #Japan ※ #Food ※ #Drinks ※ #Tokyo ※ #グルメ 🍣🍜 🍻🥃 #東池袋
Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social I explore my adopted home of Japan, looking for fun and weird mascots (and other costumed characters).
Bryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Religion @Princeton. Historian of Japanese religions (esp. 7th-9th c.) & Buddhism. Author of Ritualized Writing (UH Press, 2017). Unapologetic Boston sports fan.
Cam Cavers @reactionlab.com UX designer/dev geek in Vancouver Canada. 日本語も🆗! AKA camcavers from the place formerly known as twitter. 
Chad Kohalyk @chadkoh.com Generous with Likes ❤️ 📸 🖊️ 📿 🙏 He/him 日本語 🙆♂️ #COYS #SurreyBC 🇨🇦
https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/about-me/
#PublicInterestTechnologist #buddhism #books #photography #japan
Also @protocolsforpublishers.com & @dwebyvr.org
PfP @kawaiirailroads.millie-may.net
Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social Vermont. Queens. Westhampton Beach. London. Hangzhou. Tokyo. Nikko. And others receiving votes.
Living a life with warning-track power.
In Japan. But not an On Japan account.
(powderbumisdead@yahoo.com)
Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social Trade, politics, and geoeconomics. Adjunct associate professor with Temple University Japan, visiting research fellow with the Institute of Geoeconomics, should be GM of the Quebec Nordiques. Usual disclaimers. Posts in English, curses in French.
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
Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com 3 x Eisner and Bram Stoker-winning Writer/Translator/Lecturer. Faculty at NYU. Noted Monster Scholar. Shigeru Mizuki stan. Sabre fencer. Seattle boy. Extra fancy
OVERWATCH-MIZUKI: FACING DEMONS, KAIBYO THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN
www.zackdavisson.com
Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️
Scholar of Asian religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
Nadine Willems @nwillems.bsky.social Teaches and researches Japanese History. Also into jazz, poetry, and translation. Belgian roots. Author of "Ishikawa Sanshirō's Geographical Imagination: Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan." 
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...
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
James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
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
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
Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com Since 2018. Going beyond the clickbait headlines to tell the story of a changing, evolving Japan.
https://unseen-japan.com/newsletter?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social-bio&utm_campaign=newsletter
Noah Oskow @noahoskow.bsky.social JPN translator, Global Studies MA, former JET. 10年間以上日本に滞在。Minnesotaיהודי מ. 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇩🇪🇦🇹 Ghibli stan. EiC/writer at Unseen Japan, head of UJ Tours.
Writing/making videos on intercultural meeting points and lesser-known historical junctures in Japan.
Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social Welsh-Kiwi Japanese translator, chanoyu practitioner & host to a timeshare cat. Memorial Device ANT
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
Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies. I research Japan's Politics/Nationalist Activism/History Disputes/Pop Culture. Shares/Likes ≠ endorsements. https://linktr.ee/jeffreyjhall
@freshcurrents.bsky.social @freshcurrents.bsky.social Stories of hope and positive change.
Dani Hall @academicgifts.bsky.social Creator and boss of Present Indicative and The Literary Gift Company.
Also part-time doctoral candidate (education) at the University of Reading - for school governance chat head here: @danigov.bsky.social. She/her.
Celadon Cat @celadoncat.bsky.social This is not a cat account, but there will be plenty of cats, books, politics, Covid, vegan food, coffee, tea, art, crafts, science and Toronto the Good, the Bad and the Weird
Lawrence Martin @lsmartin.bsky.social Wombling free...
Denise @denisest.bsky.social Travels a bit, sometimes writes about it. Likes include Japan, chocolate, coffee, cats.
Now living in Tāmaki Makaurau.
Jake Adelstein @tokyovice.bsky.social Investigative journalist in Japan, paladin, priest, 禅僧, drinker of coffee and donut consumer. One good deed a day is my low-bar motto. 一日一善 Follow me on substack https://tokyopaladin.substack.com
Mícheál O'Luain @tcexpresso.bsky.social I write things and edit things. Currently based in Kobe, Japan. Thinking about Galicia.