Steve Forrest
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+ 🏳️⚧️
@johnresig.com
Creator of jQuery, Chief Software Architect at Khan Academy, Japanese print nerd. https://johnresig.com/ https://ukiyo-e.org/ (bot: @ukiyo-e.org)
@spoem.bsky.social
* #Chinese #Literature: A Very Short Introduction * (Oxford) & *The Heart of Time* (Harvard) Translator & Interpreter: En/Fr/繁中/简中/Ru 雙語 @SabinaKnight.bsky.social Care ethicist @FairbankCenter #PIPfellow @NCUSCR.bsky.social Prof Emerita WLT @SmithCollege
@kathrynthehuman.bsky.social
Reader of books and player of games. College professor and pokémon trainer. Writes about media and society. In love with monsters and magic. 🌿 https://digitalfantasydiary.com/ 🌿
@scrmbl.com
The intersection of Japanese pop-culture. Open during construction, pardon our dust. www.scrmbl.com
@asianstudiesed.bsky.social
Chinese, Japanese and Korean studies in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh https://llc.ed.ac.uk/asian-studies
@cacrowley.bsky.social
Emory University ATL Japanese Literature/俳諧 blm / compassion / poems / pictures / 仏画
@thianun.bsky.social
台灣戰貓. Assistant Professor of Chinese. Early modern popular religious literature and print history. Co-parent of CRTA.info. Book forthcoming: Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (Michigan, 2025). she/hers
@hseparker.bsky.social
Intolerant liberal, aggressive pacifist, less paradoxical Japanophile. PR now (if not sooner). Still European. 🗣️🇬🇧🇯🇵🇫🇷 🎭🧡💚🖤[歌舞伎] 🐈🎶🔶🇪🇺
@aoc.bsky.social
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
@illimij.bsky.social
Japan's early modern period and Tokugawa-Meiji transition--communications, education and literacy. 今、内海船、北前船の歴史に興味ある。Still not sure about this online stuff, so I guess I'm being coy: チャールズ アンドリューズ
@albertlloret.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Spanish & Catalan, UMass Amherst || https://umass.academia.edu/AlbertLloret
@hildedw.bsky.social
Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
@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。
@wesinjapan.bsky.social
sociologist of disasters pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. (views aren't even my own) roll tide. come on, come on, get down to goodison park.....wooh!
@tinyantennas.bsky.social
@richardmedh.bsky.social
Brit in Yokohama, translator at https://www.nippon.com/en/ Translator of The Essential Akutagawa (Sep 2025) Interested in Japanese language, literature, and history.
@quinnanya.me
Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Signal: quinnanya.823
@mgwatson.bsky.social
Premodernist. Retired from teaching but not from research (nō drama, medieval Japanese prose writings). Moved to Iwaki, Fukushima-ken, after 44 years living in Yokohama and Tokyo. Photos of sea, mountains etc. posted to Pinksky and Instagram (wldnsmkt).
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | Lay Canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @cambridgeup.bsky.social
@ryancordell.org
he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—suspected mechanical paragraphist—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—DPCD—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director of @skeuomorphpress.org
@torquil.bsky.social
Japanese literature at UCLA. Author of Man’yoshu and the Imperial Imagination, 万葉集と帝国的想像, The Kokinshu: Selected Poems. From Cádiz.
@unseenjapan.com
The Japan you don't learn about in anime. https://unseenjapan.start.page
@eastasiascitech.bsky.social
Historian of technology, science, and industry @ Harvard. Author of CARBON TECHNOCRACY. Currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China. More about my work here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow
@nevillemorley.bsky.social
Classics & Ancient History at Exeter, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
@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.
@plumcalendar.bsky.social
Early modern Japanese literature. Researching what women read and how they read it. Dabbling in digital humanities (knowledge graphs, TEI). I don't post much but I'm here!
@animaltextures.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Japanese studies, studying queer art, culture, and politics in postwar and contemporary Japan!
@riversidewings.bsky.social
Santaku Dynamics tachi-class combat doll and Your Favorite Historydyke (PhD UPitt '17). Public historian. She/彼女. An Anatolian bimbo by Daoist praxis. PGH via BEY, PHL, SDJ. Byline at Unseen Japan. 八幡信者. Opinions mine. Website at http://riverside-wings.com
@yukaricacid.bsky.social
平安〜江戸期までの装いをするのが趣味です。 ※画像を使用する際はご連絡下さい。 Reproduction prohibited without permission
@olegb.bsky.social
Historian of East Asia at the University of York in the UK. Recently working on samurai, castles, masculinity, drugs, sport, emotions, comics, medievalism, and public history. Needs fewer hobbies. www.olegbenesch.com
@momoblack.bsky.social
hobby/art account. if you know me in real life no you don't. /雑多/イラスト・刺繍・読書など。ハズビンホテルが多い🌈🎀/🗡️🎀/🪽🗡️成人済み
@roellinghoff.bsky.social
Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, and Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto. Postdoc at UTokyo. Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
@cejacobson.bsky.social
Associate Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts @ Houghton Library, Harvard University newsletter on cultural heritage x fashion: luxelibris.substack.com writing, projects, frivolity, etc: linktr.ee/cejacobson
@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
@noxon.bsky.social
R-GIRO Assistant Professor @ Ritsumeikan. Prehistoric archaeology, demography, mobility, & 3D scanning. Archaeology stories with a focus on Japan. He/him ArchaeoJapan on that other app...
@zackdavisson.com
2 x Eisner-winning Writer/Translator/Lecturer. Noted Monster Scholar. Faculty at NYU. Sabre fencer. Extra fancy. ULTIMATE X-MEN, CONAN, STAR WARS: VISIONS, MtG, ULTIMATE GUIDE TO JAPANESE YOKAI Shigeru Mizuki, Matsumoto Leiji, www.zackdavisson.com
@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
@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; RHP + IF ⚾ Substack: Observingjapan.substack.com. Business: www.japanforesight.com
@amldavisann.bsky.social
I’m a mom, historian, research librarian, Buckeye convert (but forever a Bruin), and author. I manage Japanese Collections—including an amazing print manga collection—at OSU Libraries. (Please ask me about my background image, held at my library!)
@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.
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@chrisbrockett.bsky.social
Data janitor and leftover linguist (retired). Tsundoku expert. Language & Cognition. NLP. Japanese literature. Anti-authoritarian. Pro-science.
@nwitkowski.bsky.social
Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof. University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
@bmychui.bsky.social
📚 MA grad @ UBC Asian Studies. BA History. 💕 bad jokes + dim sum 🫖 🎲 research on sugoroku/print culture/travel/food/games/meibutsu/kuzushiji 🎲
@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/
@evnj.bsky.social
Narrative, manuscript culture, environment & literature in early medieval China (3rd-8th centuries, or something)
@dfeds.bsky.social
historian of japan/korea/the environment | words: davidfedman.org | digital archive: JapanAirRaids.org | film: https://papercityfilm.com/