@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+ 🏳️⚧️
@calebscarter.bsky.social
Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, current Harvard-Yenching visiting scholar, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, sacred graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
@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
@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。
@stlrebecca.bsky.social
Writer, runner, wanderer, translator and professor, flood survivor. Debut novel The Kimono Tattoo. www.rebecca-copeland.com
@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 🌸
@markpendleton.bsky.social
Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). Also into queer stuff. LGBT+ rep - UCU national. He/him
@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 Do not quote the old skeets at me, witch.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。
@brianruh.bsky.social
Independent scholar, occasional writer, always looking for a new project. I wrote a book on Mamoru Oshii’s films.
@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/.
@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
@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/
@astanley711.bsky.social
Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
@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.
@mattalt.bsky.social
Pure Invention, Yokai Attack, etc. https://www.mattalt.com/ https://blog.pureinventionbook.com/ https://linktr.ee/mattalt
@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
@igaitanidis.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Chiba 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
@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
@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
@paupitarch.bsky.social
I teach Modern Japanese Literature and Media at Waseda University.
@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.
@kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social
That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️ Anthropologist of (Japanese) religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Lecturer & Assoc. Editor @ Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
@jolyonbt.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies. Author, Faking Liberties (2019), Drawing on Tradition (2012); co-editor, New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025). Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.17249. Web: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
@gwynjapan.bsky.social
🐨 oral historian of Asia and 🗾Japan. Born🇵🇬Raised🇧🇩 Works@UNE Anaiwan Country. Lives Wurundjeri/Kulin Nation. Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki 2020; Aromas of Asia 2023. 🏀 🏃♂️
@colleenlaird.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Japanese Film at the University of British Columbia. Videographic scholarship ❤️
@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
@jdm0079.bsky.social
Gamemaker. Academic copy editor for hire. Gundam scholar. Asian studies. Academic libraries. Enjoys birds and cats. Views my own. He/him. http://john.bombdotcom.net/ | https://jdmgames.itch.io/ Salt Lake City, Utah
@debraocchi.bsky.social
Anthropology and linguistics of Japanese character culture, regionality, Pokémon tourism | qual research | consulting | 日本語OK
@inqualia.bsky.social
other spatial mediations | media studies & japan studies | books: ambient media, the immersive enclosure | proquet.mit.edu
@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.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/
@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.
@christinalaffin.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of British Columbia. She/her.
@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
@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
@sarahappleton.bsky.social
Co-director of Shudder Original The Found Footage Phenomenon and Shudder Exclusive The J-Horror Virus! ♑️ - I make blu-ray extras too. www.caprisarproductions.com
@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.
@dfeds.bsky.social
historian of japan/korea/the environment | words: davidfedman.org | digital archive: JapanAirRaids.org | film: https://papercityfilm.com/
@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
@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
@msteinbrg.bsky.social
Platforms (digital & not), animation, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Super apps! Prof at Concordia University. Director of The Platform Lab. Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
@nhledbetter.bsky.social
ABD, Princeton, East Asian Studies. Instructor, Asian History, Rider University. Perpetually writing my dissertation (warfare in 16th C. Kyushu, Japan). He/Him/あいつ/"That Nagashino Guy." At some point I'll start posting useful stuff here. Maybe.
@christiantagsold.bsky.social
Professor for Japanese studies at HHU Düsseldorf lots of chess, learning 🇵🇱
@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 City-walker and photo-taker
@kurtishanlon.bsky.social
A lecturer in premodern Japanese Language and Literature at Yale University. Researching literature, especially waka, and its intersection with play. Designated departmental baker (he/him) Signal: kurtishanlon.33
@ninahorisakichr.bsky.social
Art Historian (Lecturer, UCLA), Curator, Writer, Translator, and sometimes artist (she/her)