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
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)
Robert Dahlberg-Sears @dahlbergsears.bsky.social PhD in Punk Stuff, Sendai dweller, ethno/musicology, folklore, and anthropology
Punk/alt. musics in Japan
he/him
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 🤯
Dr. Kimberly Hassel @kimberly-hassel.bsky.social Dominican New Yorker. Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.
Anthropologist specializing in digital culture, youth culture, Japan, & Afro-Asia.
Princeton PhD | Dartmouth, MMUF, & IRT alum
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周年日本在中
山口県万歳🙌
Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social 
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
Jocelyne Allen @brainvsbook.bsky.social アレン・ジョセリン
I write. I ramble. I translate. And interpret.
筆者／翻訳・通訳家／取り留めの無い人
(she/they)
brainvsbook.com
kaikatsu.ca
Hayley Scanlon @hayleylscanlon.bsky.social Japanese & East Asian cinema specialist.
Writer for hire.
Japanese to English translation & subtitling
I can't access DMs because I live on Silly Island, but you can contact me via my website:
https://windowsonworlds.com/
한국어도 공부하고 있어요!
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.
Nippon Connection Film Festival @nipponconnection.com Nippon Connection – June 8 - June 13, 2027 // 27th Nippon Connection Film Festival // Frankfurt am Main, Germany // http://tinyurl.com/nc-impressum
Midnight Eye @a0dbxza.bsky.social The Asian Cinema 📽️
📍im Kino
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
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/
Moeko Fujii @moekofujii.bsky.social critic and essayist, I write a column on film for @orionmagazine. 
Benjamin Uchiyama @buchiyama.bsky.social Modern Japan historian. Ex-Aggie/RSEA alum/Jayhawk. Once and future Trojan. Recovering ramen addict. I also wrote a book! https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316899823
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. 
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.- M Meg Rose @meganrose.bsky.social
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!
Bianca Chui @bmychui.bsky.social 📚 MA grad @ UBC Asian Studies. BA History. 💕 bad jokes + dim sum 🫖 🎲 research on sugoroku/print culture/travel/food/games/meibutsu/kuzushiji 🎲
Pierre-Emmanuel Bachelet @bacheletpe.bsky.social Assistant Prof. (MCF) in East/Southeast Asian History, ENS de Lyon/Institut d'Asie Orientale. Cross cultural relations, maritime circulations, Japan and Vietnam.
Steve Forrest @sforrest.bsky.social Read teach eat run, bike write build. Traveller; always learning. Teaching (classical) Japanese at a public univ. in USA. Doing life and Japanese book history, etc. In diversity, strength; in equity, justice; in inclusion, an open welcome. LGBTQ+ 🏳️⚧️
Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, religious graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/
Support open-access projects:
http://patreon.com/prcurtis, http://ko-fi.com/prcurtis
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.
Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social Lecturer & Literary Translator JPN -> ENG
Current: DILEMMAS OF WORKING WOMEN by Fumio Yamamoto
21 July 26: CAPITAL FROM ZERO by Kōhei Saitō
Soon: LOVEAHOLIC by Fumio Yamamoto
Tarte 🥧 and Butt 🌈 Enthusiast (à Montréal)
IG: instagram.com/asa_no_burei
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/. 
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
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/
Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
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.
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
Kristi Govella @kristigovella.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Oxford
Japan Chair, CSIS
economics x security x governance in the Indo-Pacific and beyond
all views my own | RT ≠ endorsement
www.kristigovella.com
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
wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social sociologist of disasters
pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
(views aren't even my own) roll tide.
come on, come on, get down to goodison park.....wooh!
Jingyi Li @becedo.bsky.social Assistant professor at Occidental College. Cultural historian of 19th ce Japan. Podcaster on New Books Network. I read kuzushiji and crochet. 日本語ペラペラ
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.
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
Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies. Author, Drawing on Tradition (2012), Faking Liberties (2019); co-editor, New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025); co-author, Animating Action (coming Dec 2026). Web: 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. 🏀 🏃♂️
Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Film at the University of British Columbia. Videographic scholarship ❤️
Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social Movies and mushrooms. Writer, film critic, Japanese film lover, amateur mycologist, co-director of CREEPING GARDEN and J-HORROR VIRUS and author of a few books. https://jaspersharp.squarespace.com
jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social Editor of academic books by trade. Hobbyist gamemaker. Lapsed Gundam scholar. Cat and Bird enjoyer. Watches Tora-san films. My views are my own and do not represent my employer or my god.
http://john.bombdotcom.net/
south salt lake, utah
Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social Anthropology and linguistics of Japanese character culture, regionality, Pokémon tourism | qual research | consulting | 日本語OK
Paul Roquet @inqualia.bsky.social other spatial mediations | proquet.mit.edu
Morgan Pitelka @mpitelka.bsky.social Historian of Japan, distinguished professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, specialist in material culture, urban history, environmental history; coeditor, Journal of Japanese Studies
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.
Akiko Takenaka @ata225.bsky.social Professor of Japanese history at the University of Kentucky. Book on motherhood and peace activism in Cold War Japan forthcoming in February 2025
James Welker @jameswelker.bsky.social ジェームズ・ウェルカー（he/him）
I research queer cultures, feminisms, and popular culture & media in and beyond Japan・クィアスタディーズ、フェミニズム、グローバリゼーション、日本文化史を研究しています
More:
https://linktr.ee/james.welker
Sarah Appleton @sarahappleton.bsky.social 🎥 Co-director of Shudder Original The Found Footage Phenomenon and Shudder Exclusive The J-Horror Virus! ♑️
📹 I make blu-ray extras for Severin Films, BFI, Arrow, Via Vision, VinSyn, Hammer, Rekall Films, New Wave, Delirium…
www.caprisarproductions.com
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.
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social historian of japan/korea/the environment | words: davidfedman.org | digital archive: JapanAirRaids.org | film: https://papercityfilm.com/
Dr. Acafanmom @acafanmom.bsky.social Asst Professor in perpetuity | researching fandom and popular culture |
RPs are sometimes bookmarks for myself | Osaka
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
Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
Nate Ledbetter @nhledbetter.bsky.social At some point I'll start posting useful stuff here. Maybe.
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. 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)
Birch Alerch @birch-alerch.bsky.social Just a dude with a bunch of niche interests
Nina Horisaki-Christens @ninahorisakichr.bsky.social Art Historian (Lecturer, UCLA), Curator, Writer, Translator, and sometimes artist (she/her)
Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com 2 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
Emily @eamahon.bsky.social Anthropologist/Photographer/Writer based in the Hokuriku Region of Japan. Enjoys skiing, history, and learning.
https://linktr.ee/EmilyTanaka?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social |Ph.D. in Games |Postdoctoral Researcher @Tampere Game Research Lab |Book Editor @Eludamos |Author of Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling |(she/her)
Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social PhD • Multi-Cultural Video Game Production: Migrant Developers in Japan
Louise Heal Kawai @louisehk.bsky.social Japanese to English literary translator, occasional actor, film and theatre fan, proud 浜っ子
Kathryn Hemmann @kathrynthehuman.bsky.social Reader of books and player of games. College professor and pokémon trainer. Writes about media and society. In love with monsters and magic.
🌿 https://digitalfantasydiary.com/ 🌿
Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com Lesbian Icon, Yurijin, Speaker, Writer, Editor, Researcher. Looking for opportunities.
By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga on sale now! https://yuricon.com/product/bys/
Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social Anime + manga expert, PhD History and New Media (UC Berkeley), writer + researcher. Eisner nominee MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY: HOW CREATORS AND FANS MADE JAPANESE COMICS, 1905-1989 available now!
日本語でOK She/her. Bay Area.
linktr.ee/ahorbinski
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
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
Katch @katch.bsky.social 🇯🇵→🇺🇸 Translator & Editor; Writer
和米翻訳家・編集者・修正者
Currently, Tokyo. Kagawa is always in my ❤️
I enjoy reading, cooking, & long walks.
Daniel Kaihatsu (開発 妥仁得) @kaihat.su Type designer, videomaker, scholar in Osaka.
Indigenous Studies (Ainu focus) grad student.
在阪タイプデザイナー、動画制作者と学者。 アイヌを中心に先住民学の大学院生。
English／日本語／Español／العربية
Aynu'itak ponno k=eraman.
Videos: kaih.at/youtube
Writing: afkary.ae
Views = my own. 投稿は私見です。
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.
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)
Charlotte @chaciav.bsky.social working on the history of Japan and Korea, seaweeds, nomads, peasants, and merchant capitalism.
Emily @suika.bsky.social Editor at @tokyoreview.net. Freelance journalist & translator. Independent researcher specialising in Japanese LGBTQ+ politics. 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。
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
Frank Mondelli @frankmondelli.bsky.social Cultural historian of technology, media, and disability in modern Japan. Assistant Professor and Chair of Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware.
雯出理フランク。日本の技術・メディア・障害史。 デラウェア大学の言語・文学・文化学部の日本語学科長。助教授 。
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
Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social Glider in the night, dancer in the dark, lover of lost rivers and paths in the woods and libraries and half-open doors. Moonlights as a writer.
Images/poems mine unless credited. AI must be consensual.
https://ko-fi.com/helenmccarthy51
Asha Bardon MA x 2 (@ashabardon everywhere!) @ashabardon.bsky.social Anime/games/sci fi journo + manga adaptor. Queer bipolar AuDHDer. I have a BA in Religious Studies and MA's in Classics and Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies (w. Merit). Current novel projects: #foxandflower, #thedirectorareseries and #kalafia