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
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Shea Alexander @sheaalexander.bsky.social Appalachian furniture maker, lumberyard owner and craftsman.
https://sheaalexander.Substack.com
@adehogan.bsky.social @adehogan.bsky.social 
Froward Jason @jason.jagaimo.com Kawasaki resident, Seattleite, cooks a lot, Elixir nerd, software consultant.
I bought a bakery in Mizonokuchi. Then I sold it. Now I help companies figure out how to build software and grow their organizations. He/him. https://jason.jagaimo.com
SPECIAL PROJECTS @specialprojects.jp specialprojects.jp 
W. David Marx @wdavidmarx.bsky.social Author of Blank Space, Ametora, and Status and Culture. Newsletter at http://culture.ghost.io. Tokyo, Japan.
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa @miyagawa.co Software Engineer at Fastly, and podcaster for @rebuild.fm
@mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social 
Luis Mendo @luismendo.com Drawer and writer at large, from a tiny studio in 🇯🇵
www.luismendo.com/links
Nobi — Nobuyuki Hayashi/林信行 @nobi.bsky.social Seeker of cultural value worth inheriting toward 22nd Century. Known as tech, design, and contemporary art journalist.
I don’t use notifications, I use my intuitive pace to deal with all technologies.
https://bento.me/nobi
lang: 🇯🇵🇬🇧🇪🇸
内沼晋太郎 @numabooks.bsky.social 
Alastair Tse @liquidx.net Design & Software & Snowboarding & Maps // Tokyo, Japan.
https://liquidx.net & https://aversion.one
Joe McReynolds @joemcreynolds.bsky.social Japan urbanism: Emergent Tokyo (2022). China-US NatSec: China's Evolving Military Strategy (2016), China's Evolving Information Warfare (2025). 摸着石头过河, learning as I go.
グレゴリー・ケズナジャット @gwkhez.bsky.social 作家。『鴨川ランナー』、『開墾地』、『言葉のトランジット』（いずれも講談社）、『単語帳』（U-NEXT）、『トラジェクトリー』（文藝春秋）など。日経新聞にてエッセイ連載中。法政大学准教授。
Gregory Khezrnejat. Author, associate professor.
Shin Yabe @syabe7.bsky.social Photographer
https://www.shintayabe.com
Paul Oswald @poswald.bsky.social Startup CTO in Japan, Angel Investor, part-time startup advisor, HNTokyo founder and MC, Python enthusiast, ex-Sony Music
NYC | Tokyo
Also at https://mastodon.social/@poswald
aziz @handle.invalid 
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.
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com Editor in Tokyo posting Japan-related stuff, articles, essays, photos, and fiction.
記事やフィクション、気になる映画の解説など投稿しています。
Web: https://www.danielwarriner.com/
Ben Ascione @benasci1.bsky.social International Relations in the Asia-Pacific, Japanese foreign and security policy. Lecturer at GSAPS, Waseda University. Editorial board at East Asia Forum.
Kenneth Mori McElwain @kmcelwain.bsky.social Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. ケネス・盛・マッケルウェイン. 東京大学 社会科学研究所. Politics, constitutionalism, Japan, Ireland! https://www.kennethmcelwain.com/
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
Robert Dahlberg-Sears @dahlbergsears.bsky.social PhD in Punk Stuff, Sendai dweller, ethno/musicology, folklore, and anthropology
Punk/alt. musics in Japan
he/him
Jim Rion・ライオン ジミー @jimrion.com Peace, please, peace for all.
Translator (Strange Pictures, Strange Houses, etc.). Japanese horror devourer. Bird picture taker
Co-host of Sake Deep Dive podcast.
英訳者：「悪魔がきたれて、笛をふく」「変な家」「変な絵」等等
執筆者：「Discovering Yamaguchi Sake」
20年以上日本在中
山口県万歳🙌
Christopher Hepburn @chrishepburn.bsky.social Pale and awkward PhD ethnomusicologist.
Postdoc & Teaching Fellowship completed @USC (History).
Author of Defining Waka Musically (Palgrave).
Steadfast polemicist, all in good fun.
Views my own.
Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com a podcast about Japanese fiction + some of its best works | posting updates on new Japanese fiction | apologies for the typos | blocking new follows that look like bots | DON’T buy or read AI translations | all stories are political
Eve Loh Kazuhara @elkazu.bsky.social ECR Japanese art historian. In Singapore.
Postwar Painting, Nihonga. Tanaka Isson and Amami Oshima.
Lectures at National University of Singapore and University of the Arts (Singapore).
Also sharing posts on Japanese art and culture events, in SG.
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.
Patrick Terry @patrickterry.bsky.social Adjunct Assistant Professor - Portland State University School of Film, PhD - Japanese Film - ポートランド州立大学、映画学部、邦画、映画産業
Ginny Tapley Takemori @ginnytkmr.bsky.social Literary translator from Japanese
Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings, Life Ceremony, Vanishing World (Sayaka Murata), The Little House, Things Remembered And Things Forgotten (Kyoko Nakajima), Mornings Without Mii (Mayumi Inaba), and plenty more!
yutaka kubo @yutakakubo.bsky.social Researcher in Japanese cinema and queer cinema. Associate professor of film studies at Kanazawa University. Currently working on projects on food, loss and grief, aging, affect, gay porn, and queer archives.
Works: https://researchmap.jp/y_kubo315
Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social Tokyo-based writer, localizer, cultural consultant. Author of Pure Invention, Yokai Attack, and more.
https://www.mattalt.com/
https://blog.pureinventionbook.com/
https://linktr.ee/mattalt
sam byford @multicore.blog proprietor of www.multicore.blog
editor at @japantimes.co.jp in tokyo
formerly @theverge.com and @reuters.com
dad of pascal the shiba
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