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NEWS | Press Release
Slime Mold Metabolites Are a Promising, Eco-Friendly Repellent of Root-Knot Nematodes
A team of researchers led by Professor Tamao Saito found slime mold secretes organic compounds that repel para...
NEWS | Announcement
Sophia University Selected for MEXT’s Inter-University Exchange Project with African Countries
Sophia University has been selected for MEXT’s FY2025 “Inter-University Exchange Project – Support for the For...
NEWS | Announcement
Sophia University Researchers Ranked Among the World’s Top 2% in 2025
Seven Sophia University researchers have been recognized in the career-long category and six in the&...
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Symposium “Intergenerational Dialogue on the Next 10 Years of Education in Africa” Held as a TICAD9 Thematic Event
On August 21, Sophia University and the UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (UNESCO...
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The 2nd edition of Model African Union in Japan held as a thematic event of TICAD 9
The 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9), held in Yokohama from August 20 to 22...
NEWS | Announcement
“Sophia University United Nations Weeks October 2025” will be held from October 6 to 30.
To consider our future through U.N Activities Sophia University UN Weeks, launched in 2014 under the concept &...
Instagramming the Countryside: social media and demographic change in rural Japan
- 17:30-19:00
- Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University (In person only / No registration required)
- Institute of Comparative Culture
In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan
- 18:30-20:00
- Room 301, building 10
- Institute of Comparative Culture
UN Weeks October 2025 “Challenges of Ending Wars and Peacebuilding in the Middle East”
- 21:00~22:30
- Zoom
- Sophia University
Island Sustainability Institute Symposium:ISLAND SUSTAINABILITY 2030: NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS and CLIMATE COMMITMENTS in SMALL ISLAND STATES and TERRITORIES
- 15:30~17:00
- Central library Room L-911 / Zoom
- Island Sustainability Institute
Japanese-Chinese Cuisine: Imperialism, Nostalgia and Cultural Heritage
- 18:00-19:30 (JST)
- Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University / Zoom
- Institute of Comparative Culture
UN Weeks October 2025 “UN’s 80th Anniversary and Participation report of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai”
- 18:00-19:30
- 17th Floor, Build. #2 or Zoom
- Sophia University
Sophia Chronicle since 1913
The enduring bond with theater and Sophia University has passed down through generations, as many performances by a famous theater company have taken place on its stage.

Sophia’s Endeavor to Evolve
A Scholarly Relay Linking Different Generations to the Future

Window to the World
Embracing the freedom to say “non!” The World as Seen by Immersing Myself in France

Sophia’s Endeavor to Evolve
Offering a Variety of Study Abroad Programs to Make Our Campus more International:Cultivating Our Students’ Competencies to Thrive in Today’s Global Society

Window to the World
My study abroad experience left me captivated by the richness of Brazilian culture and sparked my desire to pursue postgraduate studies

The Knot- Nexus of Knowledge by Sophia Professors
The reasons people with disabilities in African rainforests are full of life
