Kubota, Jumpei, and Mitsuko Watanabe, eds.Toward a Sustainable Society in Central Asia : An Historical Perspective on the Future. Ili Project, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, March 2012.

Watanabe, Mitsuko, and Jumpei Kubota, eds. Reconceptualizing Cultural and Environmental Change in Central Asia: An Historical Perspective on the Future. Kyoto: Ili Project, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, August 2010.

Watanabe, Mitsuko. "Changes in Residential Areas of Nagaland, Northeast India Based on Multi-Temporal Satellite Images." In Trade and Values of Carnelian Ornaments in South Asia’ and Social System, edited by Manabu Koiso and Hitoshi Endo, 61-68. March 2018.

Watanabe, Mitsuko, Yuki Konagaya, Tomohiro Akiyama, and Jumpei Kubota. "Socialist Modernization and Landscape Change in the Middle Reach of the Ili River, Republic of Kazakhstan." In Reconceptualizing Cultural and Environmental Change in Central Asia: An Historical Perspective on the Future, edited by Mitsuko Watanabe and Jumpei Kubota, 205-215. August 2010.

Kawabata, Yoshiko, Vyacheslav Aparin, Berdiyar Jollibekov, Mitsuko Watanabe, Tetsuo Chida, Jumpei Kubota, Nikolai Aladin, Bahtiyar Jollibekov, and Yukio Katayama. "Change in the Water Quality of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, Central Asia." 沙漠研究 28, no. S (2018): 151-154.

Watanabe, Mitsuko. ‘Land Use and Cover Changes Due to Agricultural Development in Zharkent, Almaty Oblast, Kazakhstan’. Materials of the International Scientific Conference Problems of Biodiversity Conservation Study and Sustainable Use of Bioresources, Devoted to the 70th Anniversary of Dr.  Sci.  Biol. , Professor Nurtazin Sabyr Temirgalievich, 12 2016, 262–69.

Watanabe, Mitsuko. "Distribution and Characteristics of Underground Irrigation Systems in the Hexi Corridor, China." In Proceeding of International Scientific-Practical Conference “New Methods of Research in Archaeology” Within the Confines of the State Program ‘The People in the Flow of History’ Dedicated to the 25th Anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 30-36. November 30, 2016.

Akiyama, Tomohiro, Jia Li, Jumpei Kubota, Yuki Konagaya, and Mitsuko Watanabe. "Perspectives on Sustainability Assessment: An Integral Approach to Historical Changes in Social Systems and Water Environment in the Ili River Basin of Central Eurasia, 1900–2008." World Futures68, no. 8 (2012): 595-627.

Watanabe, Mitsuko “A Historical Geographic Study of Mongolia Using Old Photos: An Attempt to Identify the Residence of O. Mamen, a Merchant Who Lived in the Urga (Ulaanbaatar) a Century Ago”, Mongols in the memories of Oscar Mamen, Dedicated to the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and Norway, Online October 12. 2023.

Fujimoto, Yuko, Misao Gunji, Mitsuko Watanabe, and Hiroshi Nawata, Naoko Kawada. "Changes in the daily lives and social relationships of the women in pictures taken by the late Dr. Motoko Katakura half a century ago in Wādī Fāṭima, Saudi Arabia", The Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future conference, The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), Online, September 18. 2020.

Endo, Hitoshi, Hiroshi Nawata, Misao Gunji, and Mitsuko Watanabe. "Documentation of traditional materials in Wadi Fatima, Saudi Arabia", The Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future conference, The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), Online September 18. 2020.

Watanabe, Mitsuko, Yuko Fujimoto, Hitoshi Endo, Hiroshi Nawata, and Fumi Furusawa.  "An attempt to verify landscape changes at Wadi Fatima, Saudi Arabia, over a half-century using old photographs", The Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future conference, The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), Online.

Gunji, Misao, Yuko Fujimoto, Mitsuko Watanabe, and Hitoshi Endo. "Diversity of and changes in women's ethnic clothing in Wadi Fatima Oasis, Saudi Arabia", The Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future conference, The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), Online, September 18, 2020.

Koiso, Manabu, Tiatoshi Jamir, Ditamulu Vasa, Kazuyuki Murayama, Hitoshi Endo, Mitsuko Watanabe, Ayumu Konasukawa, and Chihiro Koiso. "Trade and Values of Carnelian Ornaments in South Asia – Study on Social System supporting the ‘Tradition,’ Part 1: Nagaland", International Seminar on Archaeology and Language and The Joint Annual Conference of Indian Archaeological Society (IAS-48th), Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies (ISPQS-42nd), Indian History and Culture Society (IHCS-38th).

Watanabe, Mitsuko. "Transformation of natural resource use in the Ili-Balkhash basin during 20th century", Scientific Workshop: Toward a Sustainable Society in Central Asia; An Historical Perspective on the Future、January 1, 2012.

Watanabe, Mitsuko. "Socialist Modernization and transformation of natural resource use in Central Eurasia", RHIN 6th International symposium Beyond Collapse: Transformation of human-environmental relationships, past, present and future, October 27, 2011.

Watanabe, Mitsuko, Konagaya Yuki, Tomohiro Akiyama, and Jumpei Kubota. "Legacies and Ruins of Socialist Modernization in Almaty Region, Republic of Kazakhstan", International workshop: Reconceptualizing Cultural and Environmental Change in Central Asia -An Historical Perspective on the Future, February 2, 2009.

Inoue, Mitsuyuki, Mitsuko Watanabe, and Masayoshi Nakawo. "Underground irrigation systems in the Gansu province, China (part 2)", RIHN 1st international Symposium - Water and Batter Human Life in the Future, November 8, 2006.

Watanabe, Mitsuko, Mitsuyuki Inoue, Masayoshi Nakawo, and Hidehiro Shhma. "Underground irrigation systems in the Gansu province, China –The Terrestrial conditions interpreted with satellite photographs and images", RIHN 1st international Symposium - Water and Batter Human Life in the Future, November 8, 2006.