Adam Thompson @adamtrot.bsky.social Editor with Bloomberg Pursuits. Opinions here are my own and open to revision.
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👌
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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David B. Himself @davidbhimself.online I used to be cool.
Sometimes, I scream into the abyss. Sometimes, I stare into the void.
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George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
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Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social Tokyo-based writer, localizer, cultural consultant. Author of Pure Invention, Yokai Attack, and more.
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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!!
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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
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Kevin M. Kearney @kevinmkearney.bsky.social new novel FREELANCE out May 31 from @rejectionlit.bsky.social
I've written for SLATE, STEREOGUM, and XRAY
I appreciate the band EVERCLEAR
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sam byford @multicore.blog proprietor of www.multicore.blog
editor at @japantimes.co.jp in tokyo
formerly @theverge.com and @reuters.com
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Jason Coskrey @jcoskrey.bsky.social Japan-based baseball writer staring at an always growing backlog of video games to finish. 
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
Leila Nachawati @leilana.bsky.social Spanish-Syrian writer and researcher, devoted to social justice. I teach at Carlos III University. #CeasefireNow
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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social The Complete Review and its Literary Saloon.
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Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com 21st-century media and the 19th-c American South. Founded and ran @niemanlab.org at @harvard.edu for 12 yrs; now the senior writer there. Cajun, dad of two, husband of one. Journalist with a history problem. Also: @theatlantic.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East
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Alex K.T. Martin @alexktmartin.bsky.social Tokyo-based journalist and senior writer at The Japan Times. Author of PHANTOM WOLVES OF JAPAN (Tuttle, Nov. 3).
https://www.amazon.com/Phantom-Howl-Search-Japans-Wolves/dp/4805319747
Tomohiro Osaki @tomohiroosaki.bsky.social Japan Correspondent at Agence France-Presse. Interests: crime, subculture, fashion, anime. Views my own.📩 tomohiro.osaki@afp.com
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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
Hidetomi Tanaka @hidetomitanaka.bsky.social Researcher in the history of economic thought and critic of Japanese economic policy. I have also written extensively on cultural economics. I am active in daily discourse through radio programs, magazines, and newspapers.日本語での名前は田中秀臣。
Nathaniel M. Smith @nathanielmsmith.bsky.social Anthropologist of Japan @ Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. 立命館大学国際関係学部准教授。Writing/research on rightwing movements/politics/culture, US-Japan relations, and urban studies.
Satoshi Sugiyama @satoshijournal.bsky.social Temporarily covering markets for @reuters.com ✍🏻
Opinion = mine. RT= 👀, NOT👍🏻
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Ex Japan Times reporter 📰
Christmas music enthusiast 🎄
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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
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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social features editor at the verge. author of ‘new waves’ and ‘mỹ documents’ https://knguyen.org
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
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Joto.
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
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Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
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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
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
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