Media Experience

I have done a range of TV, radio, and podcast interviews. Some of these have been directly related to my research on the shinkansen and or about the flight JL123 crash, but I have also done many on other subjects related to Japan. Some examples of programmes and interviews that I have done are:

• Interview for Voices in Japanese Studies Podcast
• Compounding Curiosity podcast about the shinkansen
• Fandomentals Podcast – Talking about Japanese Baseball and Culture
• Jaws for a Minute podcast
• Fandomentals Podcast – Star Wars

• Plane Crash Recreated: JAL123/Japan – first shown on PBS America in March 2022

• ‘Trains That Changed The World‘ (Episode 4 – Metal Monsters, Episode 6 – SuperTrains) which was first shown on the channel Yesterday in November 2018.

• Episode 5 (‘Poor Maintenance’) of Series 2 of Aircrash Confidential. This was first shown on Discovery HD on 15 March 2012.

• Bloomberg, 23 November 2020, interview about the linear shinkansen and its possible export, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-23/china-and-japan-race-to-dominate-the-future-of-high-speed-rail. See also The Future of Trains? Possibly, but Where?

• Bloomberg, 7 October 2020, interview about how COVID-19 is impacting the shinkansen, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-07/can-japan-s-bullet-trains-get-back-up-to-speed. See also The Future of the Shinkansen

• The Japan Times, 12 August 2020, interview about the JL123 crash and the need for a reinvestigation, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=news&p=2717496#.XzO_Cii2k2w. See also Nakasone and JL123 – Contribution to new book about JAL123

• Aftonbalet Söndag, 16 June 2020, interview about JL123 isho and the novel  Brända Brev (The Burnt Letter Society) by Dan T. Sehlberg. https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/e8bG1R/breven-fran-flygkrascherna. A version also appeared in the Norwegian newspaper VG on 6 August 2020, https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/MR4mA0/skrev-brev-mens-flyet-styrtet-tenk-at-middagen-i-gaar-var-vaar-siste. See also Interview for Swedish magazine about the JL123 isho and “Brända Brev”

• BBC Radio 4, 11 December 2019 (broadcast 13 December 2019), interview about former Prime Minister Nakasone who died in November aged 101,  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c4s6). See also Yasuhiro Nakasone

• BBC Radio Wales, 11 March 2016, interview about the fifth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

• Japan Today, interview about airlines in Japan – featured in the article ‘Can budget airlines fly high in Japan?’ http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/can-budget-airlines-fly-high-in-japan 10 November 2015.

• Tokyo Weekender, interview about the JAL flight JL123 crash, 6 July 2015. (see http://www.tokyoweekender.com/2015/08/a-song-born-from-the-tragedy-of-jal-flight-123/)

• Aljazeera, interview about the development of the linear shinkansen and its new speed records, 20 April 2015. (see http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/japan-breaks-train-speed-record-maglev-train-150421085448739.html and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYvEP6tYvP0&feature=youtu.be)

• J-Wave (Japanese radio), interview about the shinkansen and its significance, 13 November 2014.

• BBC Radio Wales Jason Mohammad show, interview about Japan and the adherence to rules, 10 October 2014.

• Global Rail News, interview about the shinkansen and its impact, January 2014 – see http://www.globalrailnews.com/2014/01/24/learning-from-japans-bullet-trains/

• NHK Gunma, interview my research on the flight JL123 crash, 12 July 2012 – broadcast on 13 August 2012.

• Tokyo Podcast, interview about the history and the symbolism of the shinkansen, 6 May 2012 – see http://www.tokyo-podcast.com/shinkansen/

• iNTOUCH (Japan), interview my research on the flight JL123 crash, 13 January 2012. (article available at http://issuu.com/intouch_magazine/docs/feb2012?mode=window&pageNumber=12)

• BBC Radio Wales (Jamie & Louise show), interview about learning Japanese the increasing popularity of Japanese at universities in the UK,19 June 2009.

• Bay Area News Group (California), interview about the impact of high speed trains on cities and regions – Japanese lessons for California, 23 March, 2009. See http://www.mercurynews.com/california-high-speed-rail/ci_12052221

• BBC News Online, interview about school uniforms in Japan and its relationship to culture and nationalism, 9 May 2006. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4755367.stm)

• BBC News Online, interview about the Imperial succession problems in Japan, 8 February 2006. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4693950.stm)

• BBC News Online, interview about train crash in Amagasaki, 25 April 2005. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4480965.stm). See also The Fukuchiyama Line Derailment Memorial

• Newsweek, interview on changes in Japan’s international role, 10 July 2003.

For media companies wanting to contact me for an interview, see my About Me page.