Human security issues are not always accompanied by cataclysmic events. We need to understand how ordinary people try to lead their life and see if there are any hint of coping with the human Human security issues are not always accompanied by cataclysmic events. We need to understand how ordinary people try to lead their life and see if there are any hint of coping with the human insecurity in such normal conduct of life. In this and the following two sessions, we call our attention to East Asia: what we think we know and what we don’t know about (South)east Asia, a frontier of human security.