Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social Blogger at Liberal England. Expect Dickens, politics, Steve Winwood, canals, British films, Richard Jefferies, Shropshire, Englishness, chess, social history, Malcolm Saville, philosophy, Leicestershire and Rutland, comedy, railways... That sort of thing.
Geoff Tebbetts @geofftebbetts.bsky.social Podcast host for Cincinnati Soccer Talk, NASR soccer writer, Nihongo nerd and translator, can push you out of a sumo ring right properly
Metropolis Magazine @metropolisjapan.bsky.social Based in Tokyo, Metropolis is Japan's No.1 English-language magazine.
https://metropolisjapan.com/
SoraNews24 @soranews24.bsky.social Cool, cute, weird and tasty stuff from Japan & Asia. Also cats, because this is the Internet.
operated by SOCIO CORPORATION
Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social Fiercely independent bookstore in Cambridge and Boston, MA
https://linktr.ee/portersqbooks
🇯🇵 辻󠄀 博仁 Hirohito TSUJI 💙💛 @tsujihirohito.bsky.social 英国大学院の博士課程に在籍。MA。修士(歴史学)。専門は皇室制度史。アマチュア演歌歌手。FF&♥️&RP≠賛同。
PhD Candidate. Master of Arts/Master of History. Specialising in the Imperial Family of Japan. Amateur Enka Singer. FF & ♥️ & RP ≠ endorsements.
博士学位研究生。 文学硕士。 历史学硕士。 专门是日本皇室。 业余日本演歌歌手。FF&♥️&RP≠赞同。
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
The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social Partner at Yorke Antique Textiles (est. 2004) | Specialist in antique Japanese kimono and ceremonial textiles | Passionate about Japanese art, ethnology, and the stories textiles carry through time. https://www.yorkeantiquetextiles.com/
Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
Richard Sims @simsre.bsky.social Railway and Industrial Historian, especially the sailcloth, twine and netting industry of S Somerset and W Dorset.
Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social Librarian for pre-modern Chinese Books @KULeuven. Ph.D. in Chinese studies. Gongyang Confucianism, revenge (復讎), Kang Youwei, and video games. First gen, they/them.
Bluesky日本語（公式） @jp.bsky.app Bluesky日本語公式アカウントです（ユーザー名をチェック👆）。
バグのご報告、機能リクエスト、フィードバックはこちらへ → support@bsky.app
Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social Higher Education. All of it. All around the world. Also: snark, sumo, Winnipeg Jets triumphalism and bitching about Toronto FC.
I blog here: https://higheredstrategy.com/blog/
I podcast here: https://worlded.transistor.fm/
Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social Assistant Prof (Teaching) @UVA 明清文学
Charlottesville, VA
The long and unruly Chinese 17th century
‘21 National Book Award Finalist
scholar poet translator farm boy
sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social historian | japanese empire, environment, technology | wabanaki territory
more here: https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/schristm/index.html
@chloelewis.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social 
YUKI Akari | 雪 朱里 @yukiakari.bsky.social 著述業（フリーランス）。デザインのひきだし編集（2011-）。マイナビニュースで「写植機誕生物語〈石井茂吉と森澤信夫〉」連載中。著書に『もじモジ探偵団 まちで見かける文字デザインの秘密』『「書体」が生まれる』『時代をひらく書体をつくる。書体設計士・橋本和夫に聞く…』『34人の名工の肖像』など。無断転載ご遠慮ください／連絡先 yukiakari.contact@gmail.com
自己紹介 https://note.com/yuki_akari/n/n8aeeb8f1d038
Aeronaut @aeronautapp.com A Bluesky app designed and built for Mac.
Now available in the Mac App Store.
https://apple.co/4qHQW2Q
Chris Harding @drchrisharding.bsky.social Historian & broadcaster based at the University of Edinburgh
Mainly now here 👉 http://www.japan-and-the-world.com/
Writings/podcast/video 👉 https://linkin.bio/chrisharding
Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org An independent news website about trans issues, by trans journalists. assignedmedia.org
Support our work: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
UCHIDA Akira @uakira2.bsky.social ◉十九世紀日本の文を綴る字と描き文字、板本の文字、初期活字書体の関係や、活字規格の日本化の過程などに興味を持っています。独立研究者連盟所属。☞http://researchmap.jp/uakira2/ ☞http://uakira.hateblo.jp/entry/20170421
Elijah @tokusei.bsky.social Jaded idealist. Ponderer of the past.
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/. 
Densho @denshoproject.bsky.social Preserves and shares history of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans to promote equity and justice today.
Spoon & Tamago @spoon-tamago.bsky.social Japanese art, design & culture 
UMass Amherst @umassamherst.bsky.social #UMassAmherst is the largest public research university in New England distinguished by top-ranked academics, innovative research, and programs. Community Guidelines: https://bit.ly/4j5Ujgd
https://www.umass.edu
Marjorie Burge @margiburge.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of Colorado Boulder; early Korea/early Japan.
百濟萬歳
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.
Old Tokyo @oldtokyo.bsky.social OldTokyo.com is an online collection and gallery of vintage Japanese postcards displayed with respective historical detail, 1895-1970. Thank you for "liking"! Bookmark the site! Pages often have multiple images. Repost, too!
ama @amasugiru.bsky.social ★ art, comics, games, archaeology, heritage, & museums ★
research fellow at hokkaido university
all views are my own
Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social Retired editor and writer of online design, fine arts and features magazines. Japanophile, always curious, but usually the last to know.
Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social Welcoming guests to our two teahouses and kimono studio in Kyōto. Join us as we explore Japanese culture, tea and history!
Website: https://tea-kyoto.com/
You can also find us over on...
insta: http://camellia.kyoto &
@camelliakyoto@mastodon.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
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.
Sam Crane @uselesstree.bsky.social I teach contemporary PRC politics and ancient Chinese philosophy at Williams College. Teaching Fall 2026 at Trinity College Dublin.
Dorset Wildlife Trust @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social We're Dorset's biggest conservation charity, caring for 42 nature reserves and managing 4 visitor centres and a National Nature Reserve.
Support our work and become a member: dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk 
Takuo Matsuzawa @matsuzawa.bsky.social Urushi Art Producer 🇯🇵
Urushi Art
Kintsugi
Urushi Fountain Pen 🖊
🪽
Matsuzawa Urushi Kobo in Morioka IWATE
https://matsuzawaurushi.stores.jp/
All my English posts are translated by ChatGPT
Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social art historian, Aberdonian
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
HSEP’s 100 days Scotland project @serramento22.bsky.social 
Eyob Derillo @eyobderillo1.bsky.social Independent researcher, former curator Ethiopian collections and the first black curator at the British Library. All my view.
gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es incorrigible neophile • he/him/其？ • board & card & dragon games · 牌🀄🎴👺🃏🎲 · code & languages · 👨💻 · the trivial & obtuse · ⯰ · 🔣🍲🌱🐟☕🍺🍵📚🎶🚲
@ Aotearoa (New Zealand) · https://porg.es
Ways to Play • https://games.porg.es/
Teaching the Codex @teachingcodex.bsky.social Pedagogical approaches to palaeography, codicology, and early print. Organisers: Mary Boyle (@maryrboyle.bsky.social), Tristan Franklinos, Jessica Rahardjo, Seb Dows-Miller (@sebdm.bsky.social)
PUCE TRAILBLAZER @pucetrailblazer.bsky.social twenty year resident of Japan, now back in the US, “just to know the worst, as one must do from time to time.” occasionally make music.
日本に住み着いた男、2020年から渋々アメリカにいる。音楽は下手の横好き。
University of Massachusetts Press @umasspress.bsky.social Publishing scholarship, literature, and books for general readers that reflect the quality and diversity of intellectual life on our campuses, in our region, and around the world. More from us at https://linktr.ee/umasspress
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
Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, religious graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
@laurengatewood.bsky.social @laurengatewood.bsky.social 
Tomasz (Ma)ksymil(ian) Majtczak @ksymil.bsky.social Working on Old & Classical Japanese, historical grammar of Japanese, sometimes also Yiddish or Old Turkic; interested in historical linguistics and etymology.
📍 Kraków, Poland
🔗 https://sites.google.com/site/hublshpener
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
UBC Asian Studies @asia.ubc.ca UBC’s Asian Studies Department is the flagship Asian Studies department in Canada and is widely acknowledged as one of the finest in North America.
https://asia.ubc.ca/
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.
Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com
organizing with @indivisibleatl.bsky.social | co-editor for JLit @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social | MSt English lit, 650-1550 | queer (historical/SFF) romance reader | ATL | genderqueer (all pronouns)
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.
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.
simon loves books📚活字中毒の左衛門 @kant.bsky.social 在野研究者. Philosopher at heart, historian by trade. Did the research for Gambling Man (Penguin, 2024. 日本語版『勝負師』日経BP). Next book: Tokyo’s Private Railway Empires (ORO, 2028). 元자이니치. 京都生まれ東京下町在住. Simonは芸名です.
https://salonseance.com
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social Award-winning photographer exploring landscape, architecture, and long journeys on foot. #ThePerimeterBook out now. Order, events & prints here: https://is.gd/P2BW67
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Anthony Figueroa @moji-bake.bsky.social JP-EN translator & Project Manager | He/ Him | Prof. Layton Vs. AA, Fantasy Life, Yo-Kai Watch series | Coffee addict. ☕️よろしく！
He/Him
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation @daiwafoundation.bsky.social Supporting people and projects to connect the UK & Japan since 1988. Grants • Scholarships • Events.
Website🔗: dajf.org.uk
Facebook🔵: https://www.facebook.com/DaiwaFoundation/
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Religious Studies at Brown Univeristy; Chinese Buddhist stuff
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Sharon Domier @sharonthelibrarian.bsky.social East Asian Studies librarian recently retired and enjoying time to read picture books, take long walks, and chat with my dogs. I will always make time for former students and folks with quirky questions about Japanese toilets or books.
The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social The home for American book people, studying text objects together since 1904. More info at linktr.ee/bibsocamer.
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.
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.
Contemporary Japan @cj-jrnl.bsky.social Interdisciplinary journal dedicated to leading scholarship on modern and contemporary Japan, peer-reviewed by top scholars in the field. Based @dijtokyo.org
fukube @fukubehisago.bsky.social Japanese art history/ Yamato-e in the 17th century/ Iconology of childhood/ Materials and techniques of East Asian painting
Jessamyn Abel @jessamynabel.bsky.social Historian of Japan at PSU, interested in democratization, infrastructure, international relations, sports, animals, and vending machines
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.
Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Arizona, director of UA Center for East Asian Studies
Author of Bandits in Print, available as a free download from Cornell University Press
Personal account; views are my own
Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social Torontonian, historian of medieval Japan. Posts about cats, cooking, umami, gardening, and gin making. Sushi, too
Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social Independent literary publishers. Discover our books here: http://granta.com/books/. 
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
sharpweb.org
Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social 🏛️ Archaeology PhD Candidate at Cambridge University
🗾 Daiwa Scholar in Japanese Studies 2022, researching translation/interpretation at Japanese WWII heritage sites
🎙️ #BeyondJapan podcast host
🌈 he/him
📚 Publications: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8397-2826
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary research on written artefacts – from all periods and regions of the world @uni-hamburg.de. Home to the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts. https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/
Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social Book historian & research librarian at the Swedish National Heritage Board (@raa-se.bsky.social) & UiT The Arctic University of Norway. History of reading, Provenance, Cartography & Library history. @sharpweb.org aficionado.
Shoji YAMADA @yamadashoji.bsky.social Professor at Internat. Res. Ctr for Japanese Studies. DH Scholar. The author of "Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West" (U Chicago) and "Tokyo Boogie-woogie and D.T. Suzuki" (Michigan U). My posts do not represent the position of my institute.
HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving and providing access to 19+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. Discover how we serve libraries and the academic community at www.hathitrust.org
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social magic eyes to read between the lines
Anna M Shields @annamshields.bsky.social Chinese literature prof at Princeton U; bibliophile, avid cook; dog- and sun-lover; cyclist; mom & grandma.
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
Edward w @edwardw2.bsky.social ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎
☉ⵙ ☽ ☿ ♀︎ ⊕ⴲ ♂︎ ♃ ♄ ♅⛢ ♆ ♇ ☊ ☋ ⊗𐌈 Φⵀ ♡
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https://edwardwhite123.blogspot.com
https://archive.org/details/@edwwh
https://edwardw.bearblog.dev/blog/
https://edwardwhite.mataroa.blog
Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social I teach Modern Japanese Literature and Media at Waseda University.
Sayaka Chatani @sayakachatani.bsky.social Historian at NUS. A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan (Stanford UP, 2026)
Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire: primary sources translated for teaching purposes -> japaneseempire.info
Nina Farizova @ninafarizova.bsky.social Visiting Research Fellow, Nichibunken
Kyoto, Japan
The Journal of Japanese Studies @jjs-jrnl.bsky.social 
Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social Workshop in the History of Material Texts @upenn.edu / founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, now directed by @zacharylesser.bsky.social, John Pollack, and Jerry Singerman / Mondays, 5:15pm / in person in the Kislak Center, and on Zoom / All welcome
Jenny McKeon @ SPX E6A!! @jennichijou.bsky.social J-E translator (Nichijou, Dragon Maid, Bloom into You, New Game!, So I'm a Spider, Executioner), artist, writer, vtuber ☆ she/her, 日本語OK ☆ https://jennichijou.carrd.co/
Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
Paul Copp @paulcopp.bsky.social Humanities & Sinology & Buddhist Studies at UChicago (but really mainly Zen & eco-humanities these days) (and mandolin)
Jorge Fragua @tooooomuchtext.bsky.social 📚 Design Research & Theory 📚 | PhD. Design at @unicomplutense | PhD. History at @UAntwerpenFLW |
Lecturer of Design History and Theory at UDIT Madrid.
I am focus on design in the context of the Catholic Reformation (16th) and design aesthetic theory.
Tony Boccia @tonyboccia.bsky.social Husband and Father. Active duty U.S. Navy Sailor of 23 years. Historian focused on Imperial Japan and her Navy. Creator of PacificHistoryGuide.com Based in Iwakuni, Japan. Let’s Go Mets!
hush @hush-ndb.bsky.social I have created a website called The Naval Data Base https://hush.web.fc2.com. I am a 67-year-old pensioner living in Japan; I have lived in the blue sky since 18 November 2024.
The Naval Data Base https://hush.web.fc2.com という艦艇の名前のサイトをやってます。
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.
Thomas McAuley @wakapoet.bsky.social Translator of premodern Japanese poetry.
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan