Sarah Dailey @sarahdaileymusic.bsky.social Sad mezzo. Arts admin. A hoot and a half. Sometimes I just want to be Link from the Legend of Zelda.
Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/justindecloux, Podcasts: THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB, THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST, Feature Film Director: IMPOSSIBLE HORROR, Book Writer: RADIOACTIVE DREAMS: THE CINEMA OF ALBERT PYUN
Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social On your bookshelf: THE SCOTTISH BOY, REVERSAL, PARASOCIAL, BAD KARMA. On your TV: BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS, SCAVENGERS REIGN. Lit: Paula Weiman at Ash Literary. Film/TV: Sean Berard @ Untitled. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/themagpie . She/her/Mother
Works of Genius @worksofgenius.org I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
UNCOOL JAPAN.
worksofgenius.org
Pamela Toler (she/her) @pdtoler.bsky.social Writing unexpected history for smart adults and curious kids - and vice-versa. Author of Women Warriors and the forthcoming The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany. Kickass cook. www.pameladtoler.com
David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social Barroom historian. Author of The Comic Book History of the Cocktail, Imbibe, Punch and a mess of other books. Ardent Wet. Brooklynite and part-time Triestino. Intellegentia mechanice generata delenda est.
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
田中孝弘 @takahiro12.bsky.social doodle置き場
Boaz • MyTurn /A Space @myturnaspace.bsky.social The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
National Security without oversight is just Police State
Kaiju Sommelier @kaijusommelier.bsky.social Doug Hardy 2nd gen Tattooist, Sofubi collector and maker, lover of cats (and all animals), ☭ ♾️ He/they 🚫AI/Crypto🚫 From the River to The Sea 🇵🇸
📷 Instagram @tattoosbydoughardy
Evan Minto @evanminto.com Anime burger boy • Co-founder of manga app/publisher @omoi.com, formerly at Crunchyroll • Writer and podcaster for ANN, Otaku USA, @anigamers.com • I make websites/art/music/games • He/him
Follow my Fedi acct @VamptVo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social Japanese Cartoon Watcher
🌏 https://kennylauderdale.neocities.org/
📺 https://www.youtube.com/@kennylauderdale_en
💸 https://www.patreon.com/kennylauderdale
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Michael Amador @mamadorart.bsky.social I like drawing. My wife and cats are also cool.
Possum A-ko @kaiserbeamz.bsky.social KB. 36. he/they/she. nb. the possum behind KYOTO VIDEO and THE MERRIE HISTORY OF LOONEY TUNES. i talk old movies, music, anime and games.
YOUTUBE: https://t.co/WLw18SKtm8
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/kaiserbeamz
KOFI: https://ko-fi.com/kaiserbeamz
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
Antoinette_The 1_ @antoinettev.bsky.social 🇳🇮🇬🇾🇨🇷 | Afrocosmic Writer • Illustrator | VIZ Mangaka🩸🪐 | Words: Hexagon SF, Inner Worlds, FIYAH Lit, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Neon Hemlock • Rep: @julieacrisp.bsky.social
🔗 https://www.viz.com/vizmanga/deepseeker-chapter-1/chapter/49177?action=read
Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social Anime + manga expert, PhD History and New Media (UC Berkeley), writer + researcher. Eisner Award winner 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
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social UK astrophysicist and science communicator working at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Author of 'The Planet Factory' and editor of ‘Planetary Diversity’. Very into space, virtual reality, computer graphics and rescue cats.
Lucy Jakub @lucyjakub.bsky.social writing a book called HOW TO LIVE
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Luis Aguasvivas @aguaspoints.bsky.social Tokyo based Game Critic - NPR Contributor
Debug Mag Columnist
Member of the New York Videogame Critics Circle - DiGRA
Words: Unwinnable, Gamers with Glasses, PopMatters, Game Informer, Ars Technica & other places
aguaspoints.com
Heidi MacDonald @ SPX @comixace.bsky.social Eisner Award winning EiC ComicsBeat.com and KComicsBeat.com. NYC. https://linktr.ee/Comixace
Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGurl @marzgurl.com Anime subs/closed caption/video editor - not a translator
(Gundam GQuuuuuuX, Snowball Earth etc.)
Add'l Voice: Beyblade Burst QuadStrike / X, etc.
Schuyler - Last War: Survival
http://twitch.tv/marzgurl
http://kaylynsaucedo.com
http://marzgurl.com
she/her
Brian, Some Guy @modallaw.bsky.social American IP Attorney / アメリカの知財弁護士
Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social CAUSIN MUCH MAYHEM DROPPIN DRAMA
Tech Art Director @ 17-BIT in Kyoto. Ex-Square Enix, Anchor Inc, 90s PC Gamer. My opinions are mine, yadda yadda. He/him
Marc マルク🗼 @shiftyweb.bsky.social French showa boy living the Tokyo life, on a quest for 神ゲー
Game designer, co-host @pixelbento.fr.
Words are my own
セガのハードを選んだ人間
Pixelbento.fr
Codestar🔜TGS @codestarcreates.com I'm Donny! Gamedev, pixel artist, and adventurer living in Tokyo! 🎨 https://linktr.ee/CodestarCreates
日本語OKです！
#art / #gamedev / #pixelart
Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social Insights on Japanese business in UK, Europe, EMEA.
www.rudlinconsulting.com also www.japanintercultural.com
Also occasional art, cats, Japanese acrobats #TOTP
Japan Foresight @japanforesight.com A political risk shop focused on Japan, started by Tobias Harris in 2024.
Website: www.japanforesight.com
Μάχομαι/マコマイ @maxomai.bsky.social Multigeek - This is my account for news, comment, politics, and general shitposting. "We put the fist in sophistication."
I block fash, tankies, and obvious bots, on the grounds that none of these would pass the Turing test.
andrew wolf @andrewalerts.bsky.social » work on @dekudeals.com
» the @nintendeal.com guy
» host of @tagg.dekudeals.com
♥ passionate about video games and getting good deals
Jazzy @jazzyjazz17.bsky.social 25+yrs old-T&B, DB/Z, RE, Shenmue, multifandom anime/manga fan & gamer. Expect typos! Main account https://twitter.com/mysteriousdbzgt / http://tigerandbunnyftw.tumblr.com & admin for https://Twitter.com/ThisIsSternbild
https://about.me/mysteriousdbzgt
The Potato Witch @riathepotatowitch.bsky.social 🦽Disabled gamer
🐲JRPGs
☕Cozy games
🦇Vampire addict
🍁Britnadian
15+ years writing about video games, SFF novels, & assorted geekery.
they/them
renderbug.quadnines@gmail.com
https://quadnines.wordpress.com
Chris Gliddon 🐯 @tigerwolf.bsky.social Exploring Koei's secret history. 🎮 Historian, researcher, writer, dad, and dedicated fan. Producer @RocketSnail / VP of Creative @DigialDaylight by day. Ex-Disney, Tiny Mix Tapes, etc.
Rafal Jaki @rjaki.bsky.social Exec producer and showrunner for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, writer of Witcher: Ronin and No\Name. Biz Dev and Creative professional. Ex-CDPR. Contact: www.rjaki.com
Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social 「Otaku W/O Borders」
I write things and put them on the internet.
📧: eyezehuhh @ gmail dot com
Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social Writer at Crunchyroll, Polygon, WIRED, Vulture, GamesRadar, Inverse, Pokemon, Paste Magazine and other places / Rep'd by Aevitas Creative / Author of MONSTER KIDS ('22), I AM THE NIGHT ('26) and LIFE FINDS A WAY ('28) / Picked Charmander
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social #Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://yacnews.com/
Karen Gardiner @karendesuyo.bsky.social Scottish writer based in Northern NY, via Japan and elsewhere. Work in Condé Nast Traveler, BBC, Nat Geo, Washington Post and more. https://karengardiner.contently.com
Yuko Tamura @yutranslates.bsky.social Cultural journalist. Bylines: The Japan Times, Lonely Planet, CNBC and more. EiC of JaponicaPub. Views my own, not here for arguments. Please be kind or scroll on.
https://t.co/vAYSXQfxal
@fccjapan.bsky.social @fccjapan.bsky.social 
「セミパ」SEMI PERMANENT @semipermanentjapan.bsky.social Not A Design Studio
instagram.com/SemiPermanentJapan
Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social Japan. ALife & Astrobiology researcher https://lanasina.github.io/
Research @ Sony CSL, Associate Prof. National Institute for Basic Biology.
talking dog insta @iikocookie
🚫 I block empty profiles
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Independent journalist.
Send tips via Signal: 202-510-1268.
Join my newsletter 👇👇👇
kenklippenstein.substack.com
Mork Rudley @mootlander.bsky.social Hi there, I sculpt little weirdos. DM me to order direct or check out my links. AI-Free.
https://www.patreon.com/MorksMiniatures
https://cults3d.com/en/users/MorksMiniatures/
C Yano @cyanophilia.bsky.social Artist, Elder Goth, Parental unit, Spousal unit, Feminist, Sledgehammer in a velvet glove. 
Carter McKendry @ca.rter.io カーター・マッケンドリ (he/him) I enjoy that media you hate. Computer nerd. Japan dork. Horror geek. Comic book guy. Sci fi fanboy. Not necessarily in that order. Enthusiast, not connoisseur.
https://ca.rter.io/
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/
Jon Irwin @winwinirwin.bsky.social Writer/Teacher.
Words in Kill Screen, Paste, Men's Health, The Atlantic, Billboard, Variety, Washington Post, Inverse and more.
https://about.me/jonirwinis
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!
Harry Bossert @harrynzmi.bsky.social 🇬🇧 → 🇯🇵 Video creator, Japanese music explorer. Director @angura-live.bsky.social ⚡️ http://instagram.com/harrynzmi
Richardson Handjaja @rhandjaja.bsky.social Publisher & editor of @animenomics.com, formerly news managing editor at @myanimelist.net. Documenting anime and manga's global rise since 2015. National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards finalist.
日本のアニメや漫画のビジネス展開を報道します。
A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social 👩🏾💻 freelance writer, editor and photojournalist scuttling between Tokyo and Kobe. All I talk about on here is games (board & video), music, tech and books.
Bill Moakler @bmoakny.bsky.social Posts: Mostly what I read and places I go in Central New York.
Follows: Comics/Manga/Anime, Japan, Japanese Language Learning, Books, Board Games, Food Writing, Archaeology, 80s Pop Culture, NY Rangers/Yankees/Knicks.
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
朝日新聞 @asahi.com 朝日新聞社が運営する公式ニュースアカウントです。
Official account of the Asahi Shimbun Newspaper.
最新のニュース速報や旬の話題を配信します。朝日新聞社からのお知らせやお得な情報も時々流れます。ホームページは https://www.asahi.com/ (英語版 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/ )、Facebookページは http://facebook.com/asahicom です。
Mary Roach @maryroach.bsky.social Nonfiction author, science goober. Stiff, Bonk, Fuzz, Grunt, Packing for Mars, etc. 
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/
Joshua Hunt @viajoshhunt.bsky.social GQ correspondent & freelance writer for The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, etc. 元ロイター通信東京支局の記者. Photo by John Clayton Lee.
Andy Baio @andy.baio.net The poster formerly known as "waxpancake". I make @Waxy.org and @xoxofest.com. Also: Skittish, Upcoming, Supercut, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter.
WWW: https://waxy.org
Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio
Dylan Makes Games @dylancuthbert.bsky.social Ultra veteran game dev, I have made a /lot/ of games, some of them are hits! Some of them aren’t! But I love every one of them.
Sean Bonner 🔥 @seanbonner.com Artist. Troublemaker. Misanthropologist.
🖥️ https://seanbonner.com
💬 https://t.me/justanothercrowd
Scott Hards @sthards.bsky.social Founder of hlj.com. Serial entrepreneur. Born and raised in Michigan, USA. Spartan. Lived in Japan 1991-2024.
Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, religious graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
Michael Arias @michaelarias.net Award-winning filmmaker, director of “cult animé” TEKKONKINKREET 😬 映像ジャンルや国籍を超えてボーダレスに活躍し、映画『鉄コン筋クリート』で監督デビューを飾ったクリエイター😅 https://michaelarias.net
AizuYabanjin @aizuyabanjin.bsky.social pottering about, growing stuff, cooking stuff, taking photos of stuff, underachieving, trying not to be a grumpy old man
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social 
The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp News, features and commentary from the oldest (est. 1897) and most widely read English-language media outlet in Japan.
JT staff on Bluesky: https://jtim.es/bskysp
Our newsletters: https://jtime.es/newsletters
Elsewhere: jtim.es/m/social
Mark Thompson @markthompson.japantimes.co.jp Managing editor @ The Japan Times https://japantimes.co.jp
Usual disclaimers
Long-term Tokyoite
Sachiko Ishikawa @ishikawasachi.bsky.social Social issues, motherhood, and politics in Japan. NOT AN IMMIGRATION LAWYER.
Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social Covering Asia at The Washington Post. Mom to two needy cats & a rambunctious golden retriever. michelle.lee@washpost.com
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)
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.
@mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social 
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
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.
Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social PhD candidate at Georgetown | Researching nukes, IR, Japan, East Asia | Also posting photos of my cat and food.
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.
Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social I teach Modern Japanese Literature and Media at Waseda University.
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
Martin van der Linden @martinvdlinden.bsky.social PhD candidate in the study of religion, Linnaeus University, Sweden | Shinto, digital religion, aesthetics theory, popular culture, and critical media theory
https://lnu.se/en/staff/martin.vanderlinden/
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. 
Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
Tom Phuong Le @tomphuongle.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics at Pomona College. Author of Japan's Aging Peace: Pacifism and Militarism in the Twenty-First Century (Columbia University Press). http://cup.columbia.edu/book/japans-aging-peace/9780231199797
Jeremy Yellen @jeremyyellen.bsky.social Historian of modern Japan in Hong Kong.
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
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
Andrew Hall @andrewinfukuoka.bsky.social Teaching Japanese History at Kyushu University.
1960s student protests in Kyushu. Japanese colonialism in Korea, Manchuria.
Editor: "The Path and the Gate" "Education . . . Modern Korea, 1875-1945"
Reviews editor: Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social Anthropology and linguistics of Japanese character culture, regionality, Pokémon tourism | qual research | consulting | 日本語OK
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
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.
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
Jessamyn Abel @jessamynabel.bsky.social Historian of Japan at PSU, interested in democratization, infrastructure, international relations, sports, animals, and vending machines
Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social Historian & curator at the Imperial War Museum in the UK - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
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❤️🤍
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