Alex Watson
@footnotesman.bsky.social
Prof. at Meiji University, Tokyo. Research: Romanticism; paratexts; Asian adaptations/translations; intermediality; public humanities. Organizer of Tokyo Humanities Café. Like hiking, travelling, museums, music, and movies. https://www.alexwatson.info
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Alex Watson
@footnotesman.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Tokyo Humanities Café featured in “Asahi Shimbun” (the Guardian or New York Times of Japan). Great to see the humanities promoted in this excellent publication!
Tokyo this weekend:
February 15, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Tokyo this weekend:
One overlooked story in Japan’s election: the hyper-technocratic new party Team Mirai, led by AI engineer made gains. It backs digital transparency, innovation, and tech-driven bureaucracy-an emerging alternative to the xenophobic turn. www.chosun.com/english/worl...
Team Mirai Emerges as Japan's Sixth-Largest Party
Team Mirai Emerges as Japans Sixth-Largest Party Young engineers party secures 11 seats, signaling generational shift from ideology to policy focus
www.chosun.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:20 AM
One overlooked story in Japan’s election: the hyper-technocratic new party Team Mirai, led by AI engineer made gains. It backs digital transparency, innovation, and tech-driven bureaucracy-an emerging alternative to the xenophobic turn. www.chosun.com/english/worl...
Tokyo this weekend:
February 8, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Tokyo this weekend:
Tokyo Humanities Café 25 will take place on Friday, 6 March 2026 at 7 pm at ImpactHub Tokyo Meguro (hubtokyo.com). Join us for talks on topics Jane Austen, Poetry, the Opening of Japan and Japanese statues: www.tokyohumanities.org
February 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Tokyo Humanities Café 25 will take place on Friday, 6 March 2026 at 7 pm at ImpactHub Tokyo Meguro (hubtokyo.com). Join us for talks on topics Jane Austen, Poetry, the Opening of Japan and Japanese statues: www.tokyohumanities.org
彼女は、満員電車で今にも性的嫌がらせをしてきそうな年配の女性に見える。She looks like an old lady who is about to sexually harass you on a crowded subway train.
February 1, 2026 at 4:48 AM
彼女は、満員電車で今にも性的嫌がらせをしてきそうな年配の女性に見える。She looks like an old lady who is about to sexually harass you on a crowded subway train.
Tokyo this weekend:
January 31, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Tokyo this weekend:
Reposted by Alex Watson
Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
January 30, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
Reposted by Alex Watson
Ilhan Omar: “He was saved by security”
January 29, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Ilhan Omar: “He was saved by security”
Reposted by Alex Watson
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Tokyo this weekend:
January 18, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Tokyo this weekend:
Thank you to Richard Evanoff, Patrick Galbraith, Chelsea Szendi Schieder, and Megha Wadhwa at Tokyo Humanities Café #24! Next THC is 6 March Impact Hub Tokyo featuring Professor Ros Ballaster on Jane Austen (details soon).
January 11, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Thank you to Richard Evanoff, Patrick Galbraith, Chelsea Szendi Schieder, and Megha Wadhwa at Tokyo Humanities Café #24! Next THC is 6 March Impact Hub Tokyo featuring Professor Ros Ballaster on Jane Austen (details soon).
Tokyo this weekend:
January 10, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Tokyo this weekend:
Please come to Tokyo Humanities Café 24 for a series of engaging, 15-minute accessible talks from top experts on topics including Indian food in Tokyo, otaku, transculturalism, and graphic novels.
December 13, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Please come to Tokyo Humanities Café 24 for a series of engaging, 15-minute accessible talks from top experts on topics including Indian food in Tokyo, otaku, transculturalism, and graphic novels.
Reposted by Alex Watson
I find conference organising super stressful, but it is a chance to imagine the field in ways that interest you.
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I find conference organising super stressful, but it is a chance to imagine the field in ways that interest you.
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
The protuberance is not a stomach:
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The protuberance is not a stomach:
1819 monument to console the spirits of insects that had been used as models for “Chuchijo”, a sketchbook by Sessai Mashiyama, lord of Ise.
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
1819 monument to console the spirits of insects that had been used as models for “Chuchijo”, a sketchbook by Sessai Mashiyama, lord of Ise.
Thanks to our wonderful speakers - Ian Haywood, Mayu Koike, Taylor Mignon, and Mariko Nagai - for their wonderful presentations at Tokyo Humanities Cafe 23. We will be back in a few months!
October 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Thanks to our wonderful speakers - Ian Haywood, Mayu Koike, Taylor Mignon, and Mariko Nagai - for their wonderful presentations at Tokyo Humanities Cafe 23. We will be back in a few months!
Great interview and interesting to find out Eno loves London Review of Books! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfYY...
Brian Eno on AI, Art and What Makes Us Human
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
www.youtube.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Great interview and interesting to find out Eno loves London Review of Books! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfYY...
Please come to the Meiji-Edinburgh Frankenstein Symposium Saturday 18 October 2025. For details, please see poster and www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein....
明治―エディンバラ・フランケンシュタイン・シンポジウム
2025年10月18日（土）に開催いたします。
詳細につきましては、ポスターおよび以下のサイトをご覧ください：
www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein...
明治―エディンバラ・フランケンシュタイン・シンポジウム
2025年10月18日（土）に開催いたします。
詳細につきましては、ポスターおよび以下のサイトをご覧ください：
www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein...
September 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Please come to the Meiji-Edinburgh Frankenstein Symposium Saturday 18 October 2025. For details, please see poster and www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein....
明治―エディンバラ・フランケンシュタイン・シンポジウム
2025年10月18日（土）に開催いたします。
詳細につきましては、ポスターおよび以下のサイトをご覧ください：
www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein...
明治―エディンバラ・フランケンシュタイン・シンポジウム
2025年10月18日（土）に開催いたします。
詳細につきましては、ポスターおよび以下のサイトをご覧ください：
www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein...
15-min talks on Hokusai & British art, forgotten lives, online love & visual poetry!
Join us for Tokyo Humanities Café 23 – Fri 24 Oct 2025, 19:30-21:15 @ Ryozan Park Lounge (Sugamo): www.tokyohumanities.org.
Join us for Tokyo Humanities Café 23 – Fri 24 Oct 2025, 19:30-21:15 @ Ryozan Park Lounge (Sugamo): www.tokyohumanities.org.
September 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
15-min talks on Hokusai & British art, forgotten lives, online love & visual poetry!
Join us for Tokyo Humanities Café 23 – Fri 24 Oct 2025, 19:30-21:15 @ Ryozan Park Lounge (Sugamo): www.tokyohumanities.org.
Join us for Tokyo Humanities Café 23 – Fri 24 Oct 2025, 19:30-21:15 @ Ryozan Park Lounge (Sugamo): www.tokyohumanities.org.
Nice hike in Tsukuba:
September 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Nice hike in Tsukuba:
Togoshi Hachiman shrine matsuri:
September 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Togoshi Hachiman shrine matsuri:
Family friendly photos from the Kabukicho Shunga and national art centre exhibitions:
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Family friendly photos from the Kabukicho Shunga and national art centre exhibitions:
Fascinating exhibitions today:
August 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Fascinating exhibitions today: