Japan and Southeast Asia Editorial

Abstract This issue of Internationales Asienforum / International Quarterly for Asian Studies addresses genuine aspects of intra-regional relations between Japan and Southeast Asia. The topics presented here were delivered at the Annual Conference of the Association for Social Science Research on Japan in 2012. This conference was sponsored by the Japan Foundation and the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and held at the conference centre of the Catholic Diocese of Rothenburg-Stuttgart in Weingarten, Germany. The event brought together scholars from Japan and Southeast Asia for two and a half days to discuss a range of issues on the topic of “Japan and Southeast Asia: Varieties of an Intra-regional Relationship”.