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.
Or Porath @orporath.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Religion, Tel Aviv University
Else-Frenkel-Brunswik-Institut @efbisachsen.bsky.social Das EFBI an der Universität Leipzig erforscht und dokumentiert demokratiefeindliche Einstellungen, Strukturen und Bestrebungen in Sachsen & berät die Zivilgesellschaft.
DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org German Institute for Japanese Studies ドイツ日本研究所 Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien | research on Japan from Japan | developing scholars | building networks www.dijtokyo.org www.linkedin.com/company/dijtokyo www.youtube.com/c/dijtokyo
Jonas Kreienbaum @kreienbaumj.bsky.social Historian working on colonialism, post-colonial North-South relations, genocide and economic crises. Lecturer for international economic history at University College Cork.
Anaclet Pons @clionauta-ap.bsky.social Noticias sobre la disciplina histórica [Universitat de València-Departament d'Història Moderna i Contemporània]
Till KNAUDT @tillknaudt.bsky.social I am a historian of modern Japan, working on anti-imperialism, computers, expositions, and hippies, among other things. Soon back in Germany @Leipzig University.
Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics | ReCentGlobe @recentglobe.bsky.social Central institution of Leipzig University with more than 250 researchers, dedicated to the study of globalization projects in the past and present. recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de
Roman Krawielicki @romankw.bsky.social #Wisskomm #recentglobe @unileipzig
Kathleen Schlütter @kschluetter.nfdi.social.ap.brid.gy Managing director Leipzig Science Network (LSN)
Guest Researcher @Recentglobe, Leipzig University
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://nfdi.social/@kschluetter, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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.
Ray Matsumoto @raymatsumoto.bsky.social History PhD Student at UCLA | MA Graduate of History at WSU | Modern Japanese History, War Responsibility/Guilt, Memory Studies
Paul Charon @paulcharon.bsky.social Research director for Influence and Intelligence at the French Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) | Sinologist & Narratologist | Work on China's propaganda, narratives and influence | Research associate at CARISM | Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po
Dr. Kurtis Hanlon @kurtishanlon.bsky.social An assistant professor in premodern Japanese Language and Literature at Palacký University. Researching literature, especially waka, and its intersection with play. Former lecturer at Yale, UBC. Designated departmental baker (he/him)
Giorgio Strafella @gstrafella.bsky.social Associate Professor and dog dad at the Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc
https://gstrafella.wordpress.com/
Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social Historian at Knox College specializing in transnational histories of modern Japan and East Asia, digital humanities, and virtual heritage. 
Sascha R. Harnisch @saschaharnisch.bsky.social Historian focussing on early modern Japan 🌸 | University of Erfurt | Bun dad | Tea enthusiast 🌿 | he/him 🫐
Jürgen Dinkel @juergendinkel.bsky.social Historian, Leipzig University.
Books: Alles bleibt in der Familie (2023). The Non-Aligned Movement (2019).
Interested in the history of colonialism, decolonization, family&kinship, property, inheritance and inequality. Review editor @hsozkult.bsky.social
Julia C. Bullock @juliacbullock.bsky.social Professor of Japanese Studies and Director of the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning at Emory University. Modern Japanese literature, history, gender and sexuality studies, film and media, translation. Beauvoir in Japan! Opinions mine.
Sarah Panzer @sarahpanzer.bsky.social Associate Professor of History. Missouri State University. Global fascism (esp. Germany and Japan). Beagle enthusiast. She/her. Views are my own. 
Paulina (Paula) Kolata @paulakolata.bsky.social Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, US. Research on religion in Japan, Buddhism, rurality, depopulation, religious economies, heritage and materiality, food.
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.
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social Research fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture and editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. Follow @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social for journal and institute updates.
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
Michael Toole @mtoole.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies. He/Him. All Views/Likes are my own. 
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.
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
Japan On Film (A Film Stories Podcast) @japanonfilm.com Hosted by @percivalconstantine.com, Japan On Film is a podcast devoted to Japanese cinema! Member of @filmstoriespodnet.bsky.social. Promo DMs = block/report. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes and guest info at: japanonfilm.com
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
Eleanor Yamaguchi @eleanoralbertine.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto Prefectural University specializing in UK-Japan cultural and historical relations.
Also a dot artist in the little spare time available!
Pablo Gavirati 宮城 🧑🏻🏫🧉🌺 @gavirati-miyashiro.bsky.social Proff. / Researcher Univ. of Buenos Aires 🇦🇷
Intercultural Environmental Communication
East Asia / Japanese / Uchinaa Studies
日系より二系
Allison @kawaiiterebi.bsky.social Canes/Avs Hockey. NC State. Video Games. Speaking 🇯🇵/🇩🇪. Long walks. Anything else that tickles my fancy!
Mark Hudson @barbarianniche.bsky.social Archaeologist & historian of Japan in Eurasia at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena. Fellow Royal Historical Society. Author '24 Hours in Shogun's Japan' (https://www.mombooks.com/book/24-hours-in-shoguns-japan/). Breturn to EU
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.
Pilar / 삘라르 @pilarm.bsky.social Photographer, writer
Korean Studies / Photography Studies
Madrid
SP/EN/한
MiCorea @micorea.bsky.social & VesAsia @vesasia.bsky.social
Jason Petrulis @petrulis.bsky.social History prof in Hong Kong. My award-winning articles:
“A Country of Hair”: ROK Wigs, Kor Am Entrepreneurs, Af Am Hairstyles, & Cold War Industrialization
http://bit.ly/3PENmX0
The jawbone/quijada as global Black musical instrument
https://bit.ly/4nAl7ba
Ian Rapley @irapley.bsky.social Historian of modern Japan, part time shepherd, clueless beekeeper, forensic cricket scorer.
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
Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net Historian of modern East Asia he/him; Lecturer at University of St Andrews; From Stavanger, Norway
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland. 林蜀道 https://muninn.net
Yuri Okuboぐれ子 @gureco2896.bsky.social 近現代日本史、日本帝国史
Historian/ Japanese Empire / migration-pioneer emigrants / peoples history / social history
Philippines, Okinawa, Taiwan, Micronesia
https://researchmap.jp/7000029861
Swallows fan / Brazilian music: Samba/ Kimono
Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social assoc prof @UVA_History. Specialist in 20th century Korea, Japanese Empire, and East Asian environments. Author of Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria (Open-access link: https://tinyurl.com/3susuy49)
Elyssa Faison @elyssafaison.bsky.social Historian of modern Japan at the University of Oklahoma. 
すーのすけだよ @scma.bsky.social PhDing @ Zurich. History of agricultural science in modern East Asia (Japan, Taiwan); legacy of Confucian political thought. Polyglot and hapless cosmopolitan. Not a professional account. スイスでの某日本史研究者＊日常用＊高田馬場にて放牧中 Profile: https://scott-ma.com
Jeremy Yellen @jeremyyellen.bsky.social Historian of modern Japan in Hong Kong.
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." 
Fynn Holm @fynnholm.bsky.social Junior Professor at University of Tübingen; Environmental and Japanese historian; human-whales relationship; history of the Japanese Alps
Jessamyn Abel @jessamynabel.bsky.social Historian of Japan at PSU, interested in democratization, infrastructure, international relations, sports, animals, and vending machines
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
Casper Wits @casperwits.bsky.social Lecturer in East Asian Studies, Leiden University
International history&Geopolitics: China🇨🇳|Japan🇯🇵|Taiwan 🇹🇼|EU🇪🇺
@geopolitieknu.bsky.social
Hannah Dahlberg❄️Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social Sociocultural linguist and digital/popular media studies human | 📍Tohoku University | 社会言語学・デジタル社会・メディア表象・役割語/キャラクター言語 | J-E translation 日英翻訳 | they/she | (発言は個人の見解です)
Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social Mother, scholar, voter. Unsinkable. Expertise in World lit, Japanese lit, children’s lit, translation studies, and general saltiness. Contributor to @roganslist.bsky.social since 2017 🤯
Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social 
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.
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.
Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social Associate professor of Japanese literature and media at Cornell. Poetry, video games, and disability. Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media out now in open access from UC Press!
コーネル大学の日本文学とメディアの准教授。詩とか、ゲーム、障害学。詩人と翻訳者。
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.
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.
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/
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. 
Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, religious graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
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。
Rebecca @stlrebecca.bsky.social 💙 Writer, runner, resister, wanderer, translator and professor, flood survivor. Debut novel The Kimono Tattoo. www.rebecca-copeland.com
Elisabeth Scherer @elisabethscherer.bsky.social Researching popular media, rituals and Japan / E-learning & #OER @hhu.de /comic studies network http://icon.hhu.de /Frrrrränkin/ Japanese Studies Avenger/hanami addict 🌸
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him
Brian "Dr." White @androidacademia.bsky.social Asst Prof of Japanese. SF, discourse, and subjectivity. Nerd for games of all stripes. He/him/あいつ. Do not quote the old skeets at me, witch. I was there when they were written. 🚫AI 日本SF、言説、主体性を研究している教師。TTRPG、ボードゲーム好き。投稿はほぼ英語で。
Brian Ruh @brianruh.bsky.social Independent scholar (that's what they call it when academia doesn't want you), PhD in communication and culture, occasional writer, always looking for a new project. I wrote a book on Mamoru Oshii’s films.
Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus @apjjf.bsky.social In-depth critical analysis of the forces that shape the Asia-Pacific and the world. Edited by Tristan R. Grunow (Nagoya University) and Mary M. McCarthy (Drake University). Find us at: https://apjjf.org/. 
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/
Ioannis Gaitanidis @igaitanidis.bsky.social Assoc. Professor, Tohoku University (Japan); Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan (2022); Teaching Japan: A Handbook (co-ed., 2024); Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries (co-ed., 2025)
https://researchmap.jp/gaitanidis?lang=en
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
Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social I teach Modern Japanese Literature and Media at Waseda University.
Emily Anderson @imorianderson.bsky.social Sometimes scholar of Japanese Christianity and empire, sometimes curator of Japanese American stuff. I also knit and sew. And travel as often as possible. Also cat mom to Imogen the orange.
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
Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social 🐨 oral historian of Asia and 🗾Japan. Born🇵🇬Raised🇧🇩 Works@UNE Anaiwan Country. Working on a Goto Islands oral history. Lives Wurundjeri/Kulin Nation.
Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki 2020; Aromas of Asia 2023. 🏀 🏃♂️
matteoB @matteob.bsky.social By day: lumpenproletariat.
By night: Japan-based film critic and writer for Il Manifesto and other publications.
Independently writing and researching about Asian documentary here: https://asian-docs.com/
David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social Political scientist at GSAPS, Waseda University. Formerly UW-Madison, Princeton, U.S. Department of State, Stop & Shop. Author of Empire of Hope; The Rules of Play; Think Global, Fear Local (all Cornell UP). Coeditor of Stanford Studies in Asian Security.
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social Science Fiction, Empire, Japan
Christina Laffin @christinalaffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of British Columbia. She/her.
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
Dr. Stephanie Santschi @stesantschi.bsky.social CONNECTING THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL.
Working on Hokusai publication. Postdoctoral Fellow, East Asian Art History, University of Zurich. Japanese arts, prints and digital humanities specialist.
Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
Dana Mirsalis @danamirsalis.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at Pacific University. Modern and contemporary Japanese religion (especially Shinto), history, and gender.
Lucy Glasspool @lucyglasspool.bsky.social Associate professor of popular culture, gender and sexuality at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies. Specialising in fandom, digital erotica, and Sound Studies. Also giant Richard II nerd. (She/her, 英語・日本語)
Dr. Sven Kramer @kuramasuben.bsky.social Associate professor at Aichi Prefectural University. Historian. Municipal mergers in modern Japan and more.
愛知県立大学日本文化学部准教授。専門は日本近現代史です。
https://researchmap.jp/Kurama83?lang=en
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)
Ben Schrager @benjaminschrager.bsky.social Geography of food and agriculture, Japan, chickens, disease, artisan and traditional foods. At Utsunomiya University. He/him
Valérie Harvey ヴァレリー⛩️📚 @nomadesse.bsky.social Ph.D. Sociologue de la famille et des mangas, professeure associée à l’UQO📍Lévis | Autrice | Postdoc à Kyoto | ケベック州の作家、社会学者、京都に住んでいる。Writer, family and fathers' studies, also manga's sociology.
https://nomadesse.com
David Humphrey @hagured.bsky.social Japanese media studies, digital studies, and STS. Author, ‘The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan’ (UMich, 2023) http://press.umich.edu/12233973. Motivational speaker on dystopias and the end of days. Opinions my own
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
JJWalsh @jjwalsh.bsky.social 30+ yrs in Hiroshima, Japan: sustainable tourism focus: tours, consulting & seminars | Feature 'good people doing great things in Japan' on the LIVE Seek-Sustainable-Japan talkshow & podcast https://youtube.com/@seeksustainablejapan
Torsten Weber @torweber.bsky.social Historian in Tokyo 🇯🇵 Japan-China relations • Pan-Asianism • memory politics & historical memory • 'Embracing Asia in China & Japan' http://palgrave.com/book/9783319651538 • research website http://rabediaries.hypotheses.org • #scicom ⚽️ M05❤️🤍
Chelsea Szendi Schieder @chelseaszendi.bsky.social Historian of postwar social movements in Japan. Sometimes curator. Author, Coed Revolution (Duke UP 2021). Ambivalent about being online. chelseaszendischieder.com
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.
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
Roger Brown @rbjapan.bsky.social Marine & Historian. Research modern Japanese political & intellectual history, also interested in military history & US-Japan relations. 専門は日本近現代政治思想史、軍事史と日米関係史にも興味がある。
researchmap.jp/Roger_Brown