Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
@robnoyes.bsky.social @robnoyes.bsky.social Guitar | Tokyo
Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social Writing and talking about music. Forever listening.
WRTI, NPR, formerly NYT. Author of a Substack newsletter, The Gig, and a book called 'Playing Changes: Jazz For the New Century.' 
Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social Culture writer at Vulture / New York Magazine, dungeon crawler, Pulitzer nominee, things of that nature
https://www.vulture.com/author/craig-jenkins/
David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social dad, writer, web dev, mixtapes https://www.mixcloud.com/OptimisticUnderground/
https://buymeacoffee.com/funkentechno
David Thiel @grumplicio.us Infosec person focused on harm reduction in technology; fmr tech, data science and T&S research at https://io.stanford.edu & https://tsjournal.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0947-5921
Also music things + open data.
Mark Jenkin @marghjenkin.bsky.social Writer/Director of BAFTA winning BAIT, BIFA winning ENYS MEN, and upcoming ROSE OF NEVADA. Repped by SAYLE SCREEN(UK) & WME(USA).
Enquiries: matthew@saylescreen.com
Alicia Haddick/アリシア🔜Tokyo Game Show @aliciahaddick.com they/them🏳️🌈💛Author/Journalist/Photographer in 🇯🇵💛Culture Writer @scrmbl.com💛Freelance @ Japan Times💛gamesindustry.biz💛Verge💛Techradar💛UploadVR💛etc💛宝塚(美空真瑠)🌹ももクロ💛Ado💙花譜💗ENG/日本語
Author of Archive: Shinya Tsukamoto
Portfolio: http://www.aliciahaddick.com
Uchujin @uchujin.bsky.social Self Shooting Director/DOP/Cameraman/Editor/Motion Graphics
AI dabbler, Dromomaniac, Bit sweary.
Multi award winning- www.boysforsale.com DOP & www.tracesofthesoul.com DOP/As. Editor/M. Graphics & Award Winning www.hmofilm.co.uk DOP
UK
www.uchujin.co.uk
@bugpressure.bsky.social @bugpressure.bsky.social 
@constructive.bsky.social @constructive.bsky.social http://constructivemusic.co.uk/
David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social Songwriter/lo-fi bedroom producer in The Hydrogen Trees/Stolen Flowers Of The Dead
https://thehydrogentrees.bandcamp.com/album/secret-arcade
Luddite extraordinaire. sometimes I also draw snails and aliens.
Scarborough, UK
Dan Orlowitz @aishiterutokyo.bsky.social Sports (& more!) journalist (ditto) in Japan | Lots of soccer but sometimes everything else | available for commissions | nerdy shit at @nerdy.tokyo | all hot takes my own | 日本語OK | Philly & Tokyo >>> | he/him | danorlowitz.carrd.co
Karen Vogt @karenvogtmusic.bsky.social Australian vocalist/musician. Based in Paris, FR.
Next @dublab show May 28 (send me yr music)
Co-founder at @heligoland_music
Founder of @klangsignals
https://linktr.ee/karenvogt
Bilge Ebiri @bilgeebiri.bsky.social "I don't expect you to be as depressed as I am, but I don't think your happiness is quite appropriate."
Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social Usually here with my @comanewmusic.bsky.social and @yswn.bsky.social faces on, but here as me too. I'm the b&w furry one in the pic, obvs. (she/her)
Tom Mes @midnightmes.bsky.social Writes and talks about Japanese films a lot.
arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social lester bangs of comic books
Sahel Sounds @sahelsounds.bsky.social Project and Record Label focused on the Sahel of West Africa via sound, filmmaking, field recordings, cellphone mp3s, and cross cultural experiments
https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/
sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social vintage seller, art curator | @harpersbazaarus @nymag.com @wmagazine.com.web.brid.gy @interviewmag @marthaliving past Table of the Elements record label, Album 88, Criminal Records, Wuxtry Records, Deitch Projects. words: @burnaway.org nyc->athens ga
wahhhhh @wah.bsky.social Subculture Shithead + Commie + Kebab Lover / サブカルクソやろう + 共産主義者 + ケバブ好き
人として軸がぶれている
Online since the 90s
In Tokyo
http://analoghousou.com
Yuma Takeshita @yumatakeshita.bsky.social unusual instruments builder / bird watcher
https://linktr.ee/yumatakeshita
● ▲ ■ @twoplayer.net Made in the Midlands.
vierzig skizzen @vierzigskizzen.bsky.social part time sound person @ https://vierzigskizzen.bandcamp.com
Emily Bick @saving-throw.bsky.social Editor @thewiremagazine. she/her. @saving_throw@ohai.social on Mastodon. Message me there, forget this ID data scraping nonsense. Dexterity 6, Charisma 4, a d20 kiss for luck.
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
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social magic eyes to read between the lines
Dane Law @danelaw.bsky.social BURY MY HEART ON LEYTON MARSH
computer music + guitar, sort of
Software Engineer
https://thedanelaw.bandcamp.com
Stewart Smith @drstewartsmith.bsky.social Writer: jazz, improvised, experimental, Scotland & the avant-garde @ The Wire, Bandcamp, The Quietus, We Jazz, Guardian. Associate lecturer Newcastle University. Musician. He/him. 🇵🇸
HT Nuotio @htnuotio.bsky.social Film programmer (Metakino, Art Town Film Festival). Board member and translator at Filmihullu magazine. Editor of Finnish filmgoers' year-end lists and a comprehensive schedule of Indian film screenings in Finland at vuosielokuvissa.wordpress.com
Armen Nalbandian @armennalbandian.com ⋯ composer, pianist
⎯ contact via website
www.armennalbandian.com
gaianautes @gaianautes.bsky.social shoshin ni kaeru - beginner’s mind
dave @fareforwardvoyager.bsky.social thoughts to the void
Dan Grunebaum @brooklyngaijin.bsky.social Dataviz, music, words, Japan, AvanTokyo.org
John Sharpe @jazzsnipe.bsky.social Free jazz, free improv, creative music, wherever. I write for The New York City Jazz Record, Point Of Departure, All About Jazz, Jazz Podium. Love live music!
Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social "Observations of Deviance has become a Wire deadline weekend staple." The Wire (UK)
David Mittleman
DJ @wfmu.bsky.social
Vinyl collector
Writing @ We Jazz Magazine
https://wfmu.org/playlists/OV
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him
James Marsh @marshy00.bsky.social Film critic in Hong Kong: South China Morning Post / RTHK Radio 3 / Deadline / Deep Dive Movie Reviews / ScreenAnarchy / Fantastic Fest / Beyond Fest / Critics Choice / OFCS - also bits for Arrow / Umbrella / Second Sight / Film Movement / Vinegar Syndrome
@joetalia.bsky.social @joetalia.bsky.social 
cody defalco @codydefalco.bsky.social Terrorbird, ❍neiric 🜎ge
https://linktr.ee/codydefalco
yassokiiba @yassokiiba.bsky.social dub // microhouse // electronica // ambient // Eurorack
Based in Tokyo
YT: www.youtube.com/@yassokiiba
Bandcamp: https://yassokiiba.bandcamp.com/music
IG: https://www.instagram.com/discoclive/
Oren Ambarchi_Black Truffle @orenambarchi.bsky.social 
Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography Full-time pro photographer, creator & educator in Tokyo/Fukushima. Do walks & tours here, too. TV presenter for NHKWorld. Music lover. Antifa. Hasselblad Ambassador, 2015.
No Meta, Twitter or Amazon.
Free Palestine.
https://linktr.ee/alfiejapanorama
Ayami Suzuki @sandfountain.bsky.social tokyo based artist
https://ayamisuzuki.jp
ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social Too many books, not enough time!
Reading and relaxing in Liverpool, Tokyo or elsewhere.
Books, travel and more: http://10mh.net
Test Tone @testtone.bsky.social 
Alex Watson @footnotesman.bsky.social Prof. at Meiji University, Tokyo. Research: Romanticism; paratexts; Asian adaptations/translations; intermediality; public humanities. Organizer of Tokyo Humanities Café. Like hiking, travelling, museums, music, and movies. https://www.alexwatson.info
David McNeill @davidamcneill.bsky.social Professor of Communications at Sacred Heart Uni, Tokyo. Ex-correspondent with The Economist, Independent, Chronicle of Higher Ed., Irish Times etc. I post mainly about the media and politics. Hoping to escape Twitter/X.
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.
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
Love/Art Blues @loveartblues.bsky.social Osaka, Japan
Tonight’s the night.
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
Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social Emily Balistrieri, Japanese translator: Shihodo Stationery, People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice, Tatami Galaxy, Until I Love Myself, Soul Lanterns, Kiki. he/him 日本語では: @tristora.bsky.social Never genAI.
ジェイサン･パックマン @packman.me アメリカ生まれ日本で暮らして、クリケット大ファン、寅さんYOU,日本語が頑張っている。
A collection of rough drafts of my actual thoughts.
www.jasonpackman.com
Richard Medhurst📚️🇯🇵 @richardmedh.bsky.social Brit in Yokohama, translator at https://www.nippon.com/en/
Translator of The Essential Akutagawa (Sep 2025)
Interested in Japanese language, literature, and history.
Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social Former paid liar.
Advisor/ghostwriter to Japan PMs Abe, Suga and Kishida, speechwriter for Tokyo Gov. Koike. Now a TV star.
Still deciding whether I’m retired or just a bum. Born🇺🇸, living🇯🇵, speaking🇫🇷🇲🇽🇸🇪🏴.
Have the same name pretty much everywhere. He/him
Fernando Gros @fernandogros.com Writer
Granta Memoir Workshop alumni
Shortlisted for The Deep Creek Residency Fellowship
Lived in 🇨🇱🇦🇺🇬🇧🇮🇳🇭🇰🇸🇬🇯🇵
Worked in academia and music
TCK
https://fernandogros.com/blog/
Made in Chile, grown in Australia, polished in Japan
@haru000000.bsky.social @haru000000.bsky.social 
Marc Hive Mind @hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com Unlimited blah
Jane K @jkjtdp.bsky.social @ The Japan Times | Avid reader of press, media maniac & all-round supporter of journalism | views my own unless otherwise stated
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/ | https://bsky.app/profile/japantimes.co.jp
Our newsletters: www.japantimes.co.jp/email-newsle.
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
Mark Thompson @markthompson.japantimes.co.jp Managing editor @ The Japan Times https://japantimes.co.jp
Usual disclaimers
Long-term Tokyoite
Alex K.T. Martin @alexktmartin.bsky.social Tokyo-based journalist and senior writer at The Japan Times. Author of PHANTOM WOLVES OF JAPAN (Tuttle, Nov. 3).
https://www.amazon.com/Phantom-Howl-Search-Japans-Wolves/dp/4805319747
Dan Traylor @dantraylor.bsky.social Deputy managing editor at The Japan Times; former keg washer 
Mike Fu @wheatfu.bsky.social Novelist 🪞 MASQUERADE (Tin House)
Translator 🏜️ STORIES OF THE SAHARA by Sanmao (Bloomsbury)
Editor 👨🏻💻 The Japan Times
mikefu.me
yuko zama/elsewhere music @yukozama.bsky.social I run elsewhere music and sub-label elsesong, work for Erstwhile Records. designer, translator. classical music & beyond. cooking, baking, audio, Mac. NJ, USA. Our labels only release CDs/digital, but I love vinyl.
Label website: http://elsewheremusic.net
editaurus @davesegal.bsky.social Contributor to The Wire, The Stranger, SPIN, The Tonearm; formerly Pitchfork, Discogs / world-unfamous DJ Veins / Made in Detroit https://www.discogs.com/seller/veins/profile
Wendy Eisenberg @wendyeisenberg.bsky.social Sounds and words
Peter Margasak @pmargasak.bsky.social Listening, writing, and sharing—writing for Bandcamp Daily, the Wire, Chamber Music Magazine and petermargasak.substack.com. Sharing with frequencyfestival-chicago.com
Pete Swanson @peteswans.bsky.social Possessed by sound. Yellow Swans. Freedom To Spend
Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social Composer, Percussionist
Assistant Professor of Music @ Bard College
www.sarah-hennies.com
Brad Rose @foxydigitalis.bsky.social Artist
Foxy Digitalis
Songs of Our Lives
The Bird House
The Jewel Garden (ex-Digitalis).
this ain't no mecca man, this place is fucked
https://linktr.ee/the2jewel3garden
Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social Disquiet.com since 1996: ambient/electronic music, field recordings, sound studies. I moderate the Disquiet Junto community of weekly music projects. I've written for The Wire, Pitchfork and Nature. I publish ThisWeekInSound.disquiet.com. Offline weekends.
Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social WFMU DJ, writer (The Wire, Los Angeles Review of Books, etc.), bassist, photographer, amateur linguist. Founder, Brooklyn Psychogeographical Association.
Web: davidmandl.com
Instagram: @dmandl
Playlists from my radio show: https://wfmu.org/playlists/GX
liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social writer in nyc, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, co-host of @criticallistening.bsky.social
lizpelly.info
@eikoishibashi.bsky.social @eikoishibashi.bsky.social 
Andrew Thayne / politic1983 @politic1983.bsky.social Luton, with a hint of Japanese...now with added Hungarian.
私は Andy vagyok.
https://politic1983.home.blog/
https://letterboxd.com/politic1983/
https://www.instagram.com/politic_1983?igsh=MWQ5eDZ3dm1yYjBxbQ==
Tristan Tiefenbacher-Bath @tristanbath.bsky.social 🇬🇧 in 🇦🇹 // interviewed Lars Ulrich once
Sarasa @sarasas.bsky.social I remember what Twitter used to be. Let’s see what Bluesky can become.
Third Window Films @thirdwindowfilms.com One of the leading distributors of Japanese cinema
https://linktr.ee/thirdwindowfilms
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
claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social “the glamorous node of glasgow” –grant morrison / writing about music + films @ the wire, the guardian, tribune, the quietus, little white lies, singles jukebox + / big opinions @ overinvested podcast / zines @ everywhere / https://clairebiddles.carrd.co/
Shaun McKenna @smcka.bsky.social I’m at The Japan Times holding space with music, features, language, podcasts … y’know, “things” and “stuff.”
Norwegian In Japan @norwegianinjapan.bsky.social Showing a bit of the real Japan alongside its popular destinations. Tips for travel and exploring Japan and Tokyo as a tourist. 日本の本当の姿と人気の観光地を少し紹介します。日本や東京を観光しながら旅行するためのヒント。
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/
Rudy @dogonite.bsky.social 
Room40 // Lawrence English @room40.bsky.social Lawrence English//Room40 ... vibrating bodies with sound, philosopher of listening.
zeroso @zeroso.bsky.social A small imprint and a series of live performances based in Tokyo, run by Reizen, Hiroaki Maki, Nobuki Nishiyama and Miho Ino.
zeroso.jp
Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE
デイヴ @deivudesu.bsky.social This is a mirrored account: I rarely check replies here.
To interact, please go to: https://mastodon.social/@deivudesu
Apartment House @apartment-house.bsky.social We play music, don’t go out much. European. ‘wtf was that?’ Phill Niblock www.apartmenthouse.co.uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/new-music-show-apartment-house-16april26
Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social Old hippie, tree hugger, childless cat lady, lover of animals and some humans, I write about movies for the New York Times. Member of the Times Guild, which is represented by the NewsGuild of New York. Trolls, haters and bigots blocked.
ⒹⓌ ░▒▓█ 𝔻𝕒𝕧𝕚𝕕 𝕎𝕒𝕥𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕤 @yakulto.bsky.social Drummer | DJ | 東京 ⇋ Birmingham UK
Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social National political analyst/forecaster/strategist. Read election analysis from a real expert at The Cycle on Substack 🦆🏈
“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.” -Winston Churchill
Philip Sherburne @philipsherburne.bsky.social Pitchfork / Lapsus Radio / Balmat
Substack: http://futurismrestated.substack.com
Label: http://balmat.cat
Mixes: http://soundcloud.com/psherburne
Menorca, Spain
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American