KUWABARA Tsukasa

Professional Career

In Japanese

• Professor at Kagoshima University (2012, 4～).
• Associate Professor at Kagoshima University (2001, 4～).
• Full‐time Lecturer at Kagoshima University (1999, 10～).

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D. conferred in March 2000 (by The Sociology of Social Processes).
• Doctoral course at the graduate school of Tohoku University, coursework completed without degree (1996, 4～1999, 3).
• Master's course at the graduate school of Tohoku University (1994, 4～1996, 3).
• Auditing student at the graduate school of Kumamoto University(1993, 4～1994, 3).
• Kumamoto University (1988, 4～1993, 3).

Research Projects

• Symbolic Interactionism in Japan: Its Past and Present

Papers in English

• Tsukasa Kuwabara et al., 2026, Herbert Blumer and the Chicago Tradition, Journal of Economics and Sociology, Kagoshima University, 106, Forthcoming.
• Tsukasa Kuwabara, 2012=2020, Media Harassment in Japan: An Interactionist Approach, Discussion Papers In Economics and Sociology, 2001: 1-8. (This application of Blumer's 1971 work, Social Problems as Collective Behavior, addresses the issue of media violence.)
• Tsukasa Kuwabara and Ken'ichi Yamaguchi, 2007=2013a=2013b, An Introduction to the Sociological Perspective of Symbolic Interactionism, The Joint Journal of the National Universities in Kyushu, Education and Humanities, 1(1): 1-11. (Summarized revised edition of The Sociology of Social Processes).
• Tsukasa Kuwabara, 2003=2019, “Symbolic Interactionism Notes” Web Release, Journal of Economics and Sociology, Kagoshima University, 93: 33-39. (Includes the abstract of the master's thesis.)
• Naoki Yoshihara, Tatsumi Naitoh, Tsukasa Kuwabara et al., 1999, Study on Volunteer Fire Corps and Its Role in the Process of Community Building for Disaster Prevention, Dai-ichi Housing Construction Association.