The COVID-19 Pandemic: Shaker and Shaper of the World -- Contextualizing the Pandemic in the Migration Domain -- COVID-19: An Amplifier of Existing Inequalities -- Vaccine Diplomacy and the COVID-19 Pandemic -- The Pandemic, Disparity, and Southeast Asia -- Are we in the Endgame? Lessons Learned.

The recent history of ASEAN-Japan relations has been marked by a degree of ambivalence. As the first Asian nation to industrialize successfully and to have risen as a phoenix from the ashes of war-time destruction to the leading heights of industrial and technology power, Japan has always been...