Coordinator   





 

 

   Professor  Kazuhisa Kawakami 

Date of birth        :  December 8, 1957
Home                  :  1-18-15 Sazu-machi Chofu-shi,
                              182-0016, Tokyo, Japan
Office                  :   Meijigakuin University, Department of 
                               Political  Science , 1-2-37, Shirokanedai,
                               Minato-ku, 108-8636, Tokyo, Japan
Phone                  :   81-(0)3-5421-5209
fax
                       :   81-(0)3-5421-5692
e-mail                  :    kawakami@law.meijigakuin.ac.jp

Education            :    University of TOKYO, 1982
                                Master of Degree in Social Psychology

Business Experience  :
Apr. 1986 - Mar. 1992   Assistant & Associate Professor of
                                       Communication Theory at Tokai
                                       University
Apr. 1992 Mar. 1997   Associate Professor of
Political
                                       Psychology & Communication Theory
                                       at Meijigakuin University
Apr. 1997-now               Professor of Political Psychology
&
                                       Communication Theory at Meijigakuin
                                       University

MAIN STUDIES:
(English) 
O. Feldman & K. Kawakami,
Media Use, Political Attitudes, and Participation among Japanese University Students, Paper Presented at the 14th World Congress of the International Political Science association, 1988, Washington.

O. Feldman & K. Kawakami,
Leader and Leadership in Japanese Politics: Images during a Campaign Period, Comparative Political Studies, Vol.22 No.3, Pp.265-290 1989

Media Use as Predictors of Political Behavior: The Case of Japan, Political Psychology, Vol.12, No.1, Pp.65-80, 1991

O. Feldman & K. Kawakami,
Media Use as Predictors of Political Behavior : The Case of Japan,Political Psychology, Vol.12, No.1, Pp.65-80, 1991
.

K. Kawakami & H. Suzuki,
Impact of Mass Media and Personal Network on Voting Behavior in Japan(2)

Newspaper Content in the 1993 Japan General Election Campaign,
Paper Presented at the 1994 Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association, 1994, New York.

R. Dulton, K. Kawakami, et al.,
Partisan Cues in the Media : Cross-National Comparisons of Election Coverage
Paper prepared for the annual meetings of
 the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 25-28,1998.

K. Kawakami,
Lifestyle and Politics in Japan: On the Relationship between Individual
s Values, Political Attitudes and Voting Behavior
Ofer Feldman ed., Political Psychology in Japan: Pp. 109-127, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 1999.

(Japanese)
Tricks of Forming Public Opinion, Kodansha, 1994.

Mass Media; It's Evolution to Power, NTT Pub., 1997, The Winner of The Okawa Publications Prize 1997.

Information Inovator, Kodansha, 1999.
etc.