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As an undergraduate, Hikaru loved climbing mountains. While doing this, he saw many dam reservoirs that had run dry during a drought period. This led him to consider the oft-made assertion that “the alleviation of droughts and floods can be better achieved with forest management than by dam reservoirs”. Having developed over the last 15 years a solid theoretical basis for examining this issue, Hikaru is now planning to investigate it empirically by conducting experiments to evaluate changes in river flow induced by forest management. His ultimate goal is to clarify the validity of the conventional wisdom, and propose a new relationship between humans, forests, water and civil engineering techniques.