The 2016 Asia-Pacific Social Science Conference (APSSC) offers the occasion for wide-ranging, interdisciplinary discussion covering both academia and research. APSSC 2016 will bring together experts and leaders from the academic and business world to consider some of the pressing issues scholars and academics are facing in an open forum; seeking to define questions, pursue answers, search for research synergies and more; to both reflect on the recent past, and look forward, to exchange ideas and findings, in Japan.