Edited by Eiji Ogawa, Professor, Faculty of Economics, Tokyo Keizai University, Japan, Kolja Raube, Associate Professor for European Governance and EU External Action, Faculty of Social Sciences, Director of the Centre for European Studies and Senior Member, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Professor and Director, Department of East Asian and Arabic Studies, KU Leuven and Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance and Director, Institute for International Law and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium with Camille Van der Vorst, PhD Researcher, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and the Department of Japanese Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium