“Shōgun” Interview:
Interviewed about the FX miniseries “Shōgun” on “CBC Radio, Vancouver, on the show “On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko” (March 12, 2024): https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-46-on-the-coast
“Japan’s new emperor is a modern, multilingual environmentalist,”The Conversation April 23, 2019 (updated 4/30/2019).
Article on Japan’s new emperor Akihito. Reprinted in numerous news outlets, including AP and Newsweek online.
“A Trip to be remembered: Obama in Japan and Vietnam,” The Conversation May 25, 2016.
Article on President Obama’s historic trip to Japan and Vietnam.
“Obama seeks to rebalance pivot to Asia. Inaction in Syria and Ukraine overshadows the president’s low-key Asia trip," Al Jazeera America (April 23, 2014).
Podcast “Samurai history book tour interview,” on Military History Inside Out , January 20, 2020. Available at Warscholar.org and YouTube.
Podcast on New Books Network for Voices of Early Modern Japan (Routledge, 2020), Revised and Updated 2nd edition of Association for Asia Studies Franklin Buchanan Prize winning book.
Education About Asia Interview
with 2013 Franklin R. Buchanan Winner Constantine Vaporis (January 2014)
Television Interviews
TRT news show “The Newsmakers,” interviewed on Japan’s imperial succession, April 30, 2019.
ABC News (Australia) program “The World,” April 30, 2019. Interviewed on Japan’s imperial succession.
Interviewed for Japanese documentary “Tokugawa Japan Summit 2023,” on Japan’s public broadcast station, NHK television, October 5, 2022. Documentary aired in Japan on January 1, 2023 and on TV Japan (cable station) in the U.S. on January 2, 2023.
Interview for Shephard. Discover the Best Books.
The Best Books to Excite Your Imagination about Tokugawa (early modern) Japan.
Interview with Historian and Author Constantine Vaporis. Shogun-ki, the official blog of the Samurai Archives Japanese History Page: Shogun-ki, June 4, 2009.
Television appearance, AXXESS TV, Sweden “Performance, Display, and the Spectacular: The ‘Great peace’ and Samurai Culture in Tokugawa Japan.” (May 18, 2017)
Interview for Greece-Japan.com:
Interview with Japanologist Prof. Constantine Vaporis
(February 23, 2006)
Special UMBC-produced video in conjunction with the opening of the National Geographic Museum exhibition, Samurai: The Warrior Transformed,” for which Vaporis acted as historical consultant. March, 2012.
“Japan Stokes Regional Tension. Saddled by historical trauma, Japan and South Korea inch toward confrontation.” Al Jazeera America online (January 31, 2014).