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
Stinton Johnson @stinton.bsky.social J-E translator. Rice farmer. Trapper-hunter. Anarchist without adjectives. Recovering academic. Disillusioned by humanity but inspired by humans.
OneHunchMan @tokyofrenchie.bsky.social 
Hey Japan! @hey-japan.com Explore the best of Japan with us! Follow for event updates, travel guides, and insider tips. Hokkaido to Okinawa, we've got it all. https://hey-japan.com
Yoshie Furuhashi @yoshiefuruhashi.bsky.social 
Juliann of KintsugiStyle @thesickchick.bsky.social Fiber and mixed media artist, craft instructor, and Japanese pop culture & folk arts facilitator. This is my personal account. Multiple disabilities and chronic illnesses. 🏴☠️🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇹🇯🇵
David ⚡⚛ ⚡ - also https://mastodon.social/@__db__ and dbph on x @dbph.bsky.social /me yet another random hacker. (@atlassian). Journalist as defined by the Evidence Act 1995. Subject to gdpr as an EU citizen.
Bill @parachutesecond.bsky.social Mountains and stuff. 🌱
Melissa S @dragonista.bsky.social @Kyrkikree on Twitter and Threads
Game designer, tegu wrangler, sumo fan
She/Her
Casey Beanpod @thebeanpod.bsky.social 
Dan Travel Japan @danjapantravel.bsky.social 🗾🗻🇯🇵 Photographer | I organize tours and help planning travels to Japan with free guides, itineraries and premium support for a stress-free trip.
Make your dream trip to Japan real now on ⤵️
www.danielefromrome.com
Steve Loves Marines @lovelovemarines.bsky.social Chiba Lotte Marines, it's my life!
ライトスタンド永住権を持っている。
日本語 🆗
English 🆗
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。
Dr Bunsen Honeydew @sadlytemporary.bsky.social Meep
Rikki @rikki0405.bsky.social Australian 🇦🇺
Living in Chiba
Working in Tokyo
Will Henning Jr @notgonnagothere.bsky.social Texan living in Japan since 1993. Yogi, photographer, cyclist, gamer; empathetic, progressive thinker; enthusiastic and frequent drinker of Guinness.
Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social I post about Japanese literature and the like. And I guess that includes folklore😅
大阪在住の日本文学愛好家、異文化交流（アイルランド文化）イベント企画者。国立ダブリンシティ大学で日本語・翻訳学を専攻して学士。岩手親善大使（元岩手県国際交流員）、松江親善大使（ラフカディオ・ハーンのエッセイコンテスト受賞者）。現在、日愛愛日文芸翻訳家を目指して先祖の言葉アイルランド語を十数年ぶりに学び直そうとしているところの日英翻訳者。
Tokyo Col @tokyocol.bsky.social I don’t know how this works?
Running, music, dogs & craft beer. ☘️
Kaahnman @kaahnman.bsky.social Dude living in Machida Japan, make art, think about spirituality and also nonsense. We are Everywhere. 
Shane Reustle @reustle.org Adventure motorcyclist, tech advisor, startup community instigator
Circumnavigated earth by train and boat while building tech companies
Tokyo ↔ New York
https://reustle.org
mika @paprikahhh.bsky.social oc → nyc → tokyo → yokohama
she/her
TokyoTom @tokyotom.bsky.social Pro-free-markets/collaboration/communities/ #commons.
Oppose disrupting, oppressive BigGovt/ #Corporations/ #DrugWar.
Lawyer
http://tokyotom.freecapitalists.org
https://bsky.app/starter-pack-short/Mcv8w4U
Yohann @leon.re 
Tokyo Explorer @tokyoexplorer.bsky.social Photographer, writer, YouTuber, dad. 16 years in Japan but currently in Sweden.
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/
Rick Gundlach, Esq. CPA @hoofin.bsky.social I am the US CPA who does US tax returns for Americans in Japan, based in Narita when I am not in Pennsylvania. A money progressive, I am also disappointed how things are now. Want to build Bluesky? Stop posting over there!
Cllr David Walker @piginthepoke.bsky.social Shropshire born & bred. Chartered Civil Engineering Surveyor. Drone pilot. 🔶️ Lib Dem Cllr Whittington Division, Shropshire Council - Cabinet member for Planning. Published & promoted by North Shropshire Liberal Democrats, 7 Maypole Court, Wem, SY4 5AA
Sean Jones @welshbuildings.bsky.social Church Surveyor to the Dioceses of Llandaff and Monmouth
Historic buildings in Wales, Welsh folk history, Cymraeg
Hen dai, hen straeon, hen iaith 🏰📚🏴
Kate Yonezawa @saikikate.bsky.social Semi-retired, living in eastern Kyushu, farming, teaching, wandering and wondering. Kids and grandkids living on west coast of US.
Rob Fahey @robfahey.net CTO at VETA (https://veta.co.jp), where we’re building data science tools to tackle social issues. Recovering academic (formerly at Waseda). Occasional journalist. 🇮🇪/🏳️🌈/He/Him
Tokyo Review @tokyoreview.net A publishing platform for academics, journalists and researchers writing in-depth, evidence-based work on issues related to Japan and its place in the world.
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
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.
Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social Polisci professor, University of Toronto & 東京大学 (prev. Stanford, Harvard). IPE, IOs, climate, Japan; website: https://www.lipscy.org Director: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/csgj Book: http://amazon.com/dp/1316604284/
Crazyfruitbat @crazyfruitbat.bsky.social Welsh guy living in #Japan. 🏴🇯🇵
Follow me for #photography, #cycling, #videogames and #Japan -related malarkey. #Tokyo | #Chiba.
All photography is copyright Crazyfruitbat, no reuse allowed other than repost.
Aussie in Japan @aussieinjapan.bsky.social Aussie living in Tokyo, Japan for over 16 years. 18yrs total in 🇯🇵.
Fluent in Japanese and culturally curious. Cycling Tokyo and the countryside in search of adventures, great coffee, and hidden gems.
Sharing unique stories and moments from the saddle.
Bill Adler @billadler.bsky.social I'm an American writer living in Japan. I publish short stories on Substack at billadler.substack.com. I'm a pilot, ramen lover, watch collector, coffee drinker, voracious reader, bicycler, and cat person.
Stephen Stapczynski @sstapczynski.bsky.social The LNG nerd on Bluesky
Energy & commodities reporter at Bloomberg News in Singapore. Opinions my own
Interests include natural gas, LNG, oil, power, coal, nuclear, renewables, climate change
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
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. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social Chair of Languages & Cultures @ Macquarie University. Sociolinguist of Japanese. Lingua Brutallica co-host. Studies Japanese script, media, language, and metal. 日本語の文字やメタル や翻訳を研究する社会言語学者. He/Him.
https://wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com
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
Alex knight @agk42.com Designer, photographer, start-up founder. Girl dad.
Building pocketseed.io
AizuYabanjin @aizuyabanjin.bsky.social pottering about, growing stuff, cooking stuff, taking photos of stuff, underachieving, trying not to be a grumpy old man
Kimberly Tierney @lilyprojp.bsky.social Voice actor based in Tokyo, Owner Tigerlily GK, Lily Pro VO, Sauna evangelist 🧖🏻♀️ Permanent Resident of Japan
Micah 🏳️🌈🦙 @micahsaitama.bsky.social Living in Japan since 1997. On Bluesky since July 2023. ADHD, schizoaffective disorder, and fibromyalgia. Born in Hull. hello welcome.
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
David R Munson//Somewhere in Japan @somewherein.jp Photographer, essayist, educator, bricoleur, wanderer, weirdo. Everything is interesting.
Travel book! davidwroteabook.com
Prints drm.darkroom.com
Photography davidrmunson.com aleatorist.com
Writing somewherein.jp
Links davidrmunson.com/links
Clueless Toshika @cluelesstoshika.bsky.social Cabbage futures speculator on the Daikon Prairie.
I post mainly random stuff about life in Tokyo/Japan, as and when the mood takes me and/or I have too many pictures on my phone.
RedSamurai @redsamurai.bsky.social Current Resident of 🇯🇵🇹🇼🇬🇧
#Art | #Ukiyoe | #Anecdotes | #Cuisine
Then & Now | Floating World
🚫DMs 🚫IRL #fintech
https://www.youtube.com/@redsamurairob
Stephen Lyman @stephenlyman.bsky.social 📍Fukuoka 🇯🇵 “polymath” - author, editor, educator, scientist, podcaster, filmmaker, shochu maker, public speaker, ambassador, home chef, tennis player, cyclist, baseball fan, traveler, foodie.
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
Eric Turner ⛩️ @etdev.bsky.social US-born indie maker in Japan
🇯🇵 http://japan-dev.com
In Tokyo? Hit me up ☕ 😁
Wataru Tenkawa @10wataru.bsky.social Naturalized Japanese citizen from Michigan via San Francisco, car-free Tokyo resident since 1978, thriving on a no-mammals diet since 1970
レブさん @rebsanjapan.bsky.social Living in the UK | Studying Japanese | Creator and Host of Bilingual Bento
Japan Morning Commute @joefowler.bsky.social This is a hybrid account, so while it is mainly about me, it is also about my podcast,Japan Morning commute, which is also about me. I am an English teacher by job, but a podcaster, trombonist, vocalist, artist, voice artist, Newcastle United fan by fun
Uncanny Japan Podcast--Thersa Matsuura👹👋 @uncannyjapan.bsky.social Podcasting the more obscure nooks & crannies of Japanese culture - Uncanny Japan. She/her. Crows. Fountain pens. Nature. Horror w/ a wry sense of humor. 🚫Fascism✊
✨New Book✨ - Legends of Japanese Mythology (mid-grade)
--> https://geni.us/JapaneseMythology
Love/Art Blues @loveartblues.bsky.social Osaka, Japan
Tonight’s the night.
G M Thomas FRSA FRAS @japanauthor.bsky.social Fellow Royal Society of Arts. Fellow Royal Asiatic Society. Royal Society For Asia Affairs.
Kansai Culture @kansaiculture.com Kansai blogger, Kansai Photos
HokkaidoHillbilly・北海道ヒルビリー @bensteiner.bsky.social Just another refugee of the great #TwitterDiaspora
ゆで卵・White, but non-practicing・Former 東京都杉並区住民＆・東京本社のブラック企業で働いていた米人・Current Pittsburgher・Depression & ADHD fighter・Vol 4 Life・Despite my avatar pic, I have neither a manifesto nor a cabin in the woods
Kevin O'Shea @madformaple.bsky.social Canuck 🇨🇦 living in Asia. Podcaster - host of Supernatural Japan Podcast 🎙️ 👺 - folklore, paranormal, travel, photography 🇯🇵 Currently based in 🇨🇳!
Meatbag | Travel & Lifestyle Blogger @kansaibeyond.bsky.social I'm Jenny. Food reviewer. Tea addict. 🍵
Visit http://thatch.co/@kansai for your next Japan trip advice 🇯🇵❤️
Larry Staples @lstaples.sdf.org Came to Japan in 1984 to study 日本語 @ ICU. Been working in Japan IT and telecommunications since then. Likes are not endorsements.
@lstaples@mastodon.social
@lstaples.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social Briton in Japan
🗣️🇬🇧🇯🇵🇷🇺🆗, learning 🇺🇦
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ ally
daev @deibu.bsky.social Live & let live. Kanagawa
🇦🇺🌈🇯🇵
Brian in Fukuoka @mytwoyen.bsky.social my biggest strength is my attention to detal
Phillip Jackson @pjacksonmusic.bsky.social Kyoto based Brit making music on guitar, and writing about history and mystery.
Site : www.hiddenpathskyoto.com
James Alexander Jack @jamesjack.bsky.social Japanese-English-Dutch translator/localizer/subtitler. The Netherlands Film Academy, Leiden University. I write and mix music. Freelance Santa Claus 🎅
Arnold Schwarzenegger @schwarzenegger.bsky.social Bodybuilder. Conan. Terminator. Former Governor. I killed the Predator. I told you I’d be back. Join my positive corner of the internet - Arnold’s Pump Club.
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🙌
Melanie Brock @melanie.brock.social Long-term Australian resident of Japan. Mum. Grandmother of three! Non executive director, Chair Emeritus of ANZCCJ, senior advisor for several amazing companies active in 🇦🇺🇯🇵
Mark Thompson @markthompson.japantimes.co.jp Managing editor @ The Japan Times https://japantimes.co.jp
Usual disclaimers
Long-term Tokyoite
Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com Translator, writer. How to get used to Japanese (Additional topics: Murakami, New Orleans, Chicago, beer, writing, translation, basketball). Based in Osaka. http://linktree.com/howtojapanese
Star River Ikebana @starriverikebana.bsky.social Certified Sougetsu Ikebana Artist & Teacher First Grade/１級師範証(総務)
Harpist
Living in 🇯🇵
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Sammo Hung @sammohung.bsky.social #BlackAF
#antiracist ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽
#SF6
🇭🇹 🇺🇸 🇯🇵
🎙️ host of the Tokyo Tea Party Podcast (in hiatus)
🖼️ Logo designer (www.samthedesigner.com)
Wildllama @wildllama.bsky.social Tokyo/trail runner, waterfall lover, craft beer drinker, cheeseburger eater, occasional worker.
You Can Call Me Al @shropshirelad.bsky.social a.k.a. Miss Brown's Boy on the mad bird site
Brit 🇬🇧 in Japan 🇯🇵
Born at 319 ppm CO₂
When I was young I was stupid but after many years of hard study I am no longer young.
HP88 @hp88.bsky.social Home of the Monday beach
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.
Jesse Johnson @jljzen.bsky.social Covering defense and diplomacy for @japantimes.co.jp • Signal: jljzen.18 • views my own • Japan resident since 2002 • グリーン車 aficionado
@mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social 
Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social Fr・En・日本語⎪Study Program Manager @GPlusmedia | @GaijinPot @SavvyTokyo @JapanToday | Freelance web writer on the side | IG : amelieintokyo 💫 | Feel free to pop Qs about studying in Japan 🇯🇵
James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social Author/annoyance from The Bird Site
HakusanLad @hakusanlad.bsky.social Brit, bibliophile, gin drinker, jazz afficionado, sumo fan, choral singer, student of classic movies, Japan old hand, amateur Sinologist, and would-be DPRK/Korea watcher. 🇬🇧🇯🇵🇨🇳🇹🇼🇰🇵🇰🇷🇺🇸
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
sendaiben @sendaiben.org long-time Sendai resident, English teacher, jiu-jitsu failure, coffee addict, finance dilettante, YouTube grinder, Kindle fan, enslaved by grandkids
ハービー @japannewbie.bsky.social Happy to have spent 10+ yrs in 🇯🇵 doing stuff. Traveller. Gamer. Japanese language geek. Views are my own. http://MightBeFun.com RT≠Endorsement.
Levi @lescoggi.bsky.social he/him. algo/SRE/infra/platform. cur: Nom prev: LOT, Goog. java, rust, clojure. opinions mine.
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
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
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
Simran @simnagra.bsky.social Riding trains around Japan
Food, onsen and other stories
Actuary in Tokyo
🐕&🐇📷: http://instagram.com/shiba.pascal
Chris @chestnutvinegar.bsky.social In Japan since 2005. Originally from suburbs of Vancouver, Canada.
This is mainly my outlet for video game related topics