Substack’s Top 32 Writers on Japan in 2024!

This week’s edition of my newsletter The Kyote includes a list of people we feel are producing the best stuff on Japan in the English language.

Click the link for full write-ups on everyone included; this note contains the bare list only.

Comments and criticism welcome.

[On Japanese Culture]

1. Bill Adler of Stray Cats of Japan and Fiction by Bill Adler

2. Robert Whiting of Robert Whiting’s Japan

3. Hiroko Yoda of Japanese Happiness

4. Kate Elwood of Cultural Conundrums

5. Kana Chan of Tending Gardens

6. Mark Kennedy of Real Gaijin

7. Leon of Hidden Japan

8. Tim Bunting - Kiwi Yamabushi of Mountains of Wisdom

9. Gianni Simone of Tokyo Calling

10. Sam Holden of Dispatches from Post-growth Japan

11. Shawn Brooks of Ninja Nomad

12. Jack Krown of Frog’s Glen

13. Julian Smith of Walking Across Japan

14. Burcu Basar of Letters From Japan

15. Tales Gubes of A gay fox in Japan

16. Made in DNA of Samuraipunk

[On Pop Culture]

1. caity summer of plastic fantasma

2. Patrick St. Michel of Make Believe Melodies

3. Ryo Miyauchi of This Side of Japan

4. Matt Alt of Matt Alt's True Invention

[On Photography]

1. SHIMIZU Akira of Japan Ordinary

2. Kjeld Duits of Old Photos of Japan

[On Economics & Politics]

1. Richard Katz of Japan Economy Watch

2. Tobias Harris of Observing Japan

3. AltayCap of Mostly Value Investing

4. Rei Saito of KonichiValue

5. Richardson Handjaja of Animenomics

[Food]

1. The Conbini Boys 🐣🍗

2. The Ramen Bowl

[One-Off Pieces]

1. Johnna of The Wanderer

2. Robert Walrod of Earthly Delights

3. Leanne Ogasawara of Dreaming in Japanese

That’s it! Have you say in the comments below.