September 4, 2025. Prof. Mikiko Sugiura of Graduate Program of International Cooperation Studies at Sophia University presented the following paper at the Annual Conference of the Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering (JSIDRE)

August 2, 2025. Prof. Mikiko Sugiura of Graduate Program of International Cooperation Studies at Sophia University served as a lecturer at Asia Youth Leaders 2025, organized by the AEON 1% Club Foundation, presenting on “Water Around the World: Finding Our Way to Safe Water.”

July 25, 2025. Prof. Mikiko Sugiura of Graduate Program of International Cooperation Studies at Sophia University and colleagues have published a new book

July 19–21, 2025. Prof. Mikiko Sugiura of Graduate Program of International Cooperation Studies at Sophia University presented two papers at the 2nd International Sociohydrology Conference held at the Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo.

June 2025. “Basic Guidelines for Promoting Participatory Irrigation Management in Response to Climate Change,” a policy document to whose formulation Prof. Mikiko Sugiura of Graduate Program of International Cooperation Studies at Sophia University contributed, has been published by JICA.

Prof. Daisaku Higashi, a member of SIIR, organized and moderate a meeting between Mr. Ayman Al Safadi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan and Japanese professors in Tokyo