Taking into account of the both significant growth of higher education in Asia and the infiltration of cosmopolitan viewpoints in environmental education research, our team designed and conducted pilot survey amongst EE researchers of Japan, Korea and Taiwan (n=51) concerning: self-evaluation; methodology; training; themes; education sector levels and interests in and barriers against international collaboration. This paper shares notable trends revealed through the pilot survey and discuss the significance of these in relation to our future, full-scale survey. Toward conducting a larger-scale survey, two aspects should be stressed. First, use of native language is essential to securing greater participants. This would improve the accuracy of meaning sometimes lost through translation and increase the efficiency of completion. More survey participants would enable us to conduct crossnational comparisons, which this study could not. Second, the support from the participating academic societies is crucial not only for executing a full-scale survey but also facilitating opportunities for increasing research skills and capacities international collaboration.

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It gives us immense pleasure to announce the publication of the third issue of "Environmental Education in Asia" (EEA) of the Japanese Journal of Environmental Education (JJEE). EEA has its roots in an international workshop held at the annual conference of the then Japanese Society of Environmental Education (later renamed the Japanese Society for Environmental Education [JSFEE] in 2015) in Tokyo in the summer of 2014. The workshop brought together researchers from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the United States and discussed the prospect of publishing an English-language online issue of the journal (Takano et al. 2015). The JSFEE General Assembly approved the project in 2015, and the work on the first issue of EEA began in the fall of that year. JSFEE has a long history of collaborating with researchers and practitioners from all over the world. We are confident in stating that JSFEE is probably one of the most active societies in the country in terms of international collaboration in the field of environment and sustainability. Since 2009, the society has signed an exchange agreement (Memorandum of Understanding: MOU) with Korean Society for Environmental Education (KSOEE), Chinese Society for Environmental Education (CSEE), North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE), and Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE).We were able to publish the inaugural issue of EEA (JJEE-EEA 2017) in 2017 thanks to the support of countless individuals and partner associations. The issue included twelve papers and an editorial on environmental education (EE) in Asia. These papers and editorials covered the following core themes: 1) EE in formal education, 2) EE in non-formal education, 3) research trends in EE, and 4) insights into EE in Asia from outside of Asia.One of EEA's goals was to provide a social and intellectual home for EE scholars and practitioners from Asia and around the world, which cannot be accomplished by publishing a single journal issue. Building on the publication of JJEE-EEA 2017, the JSFEE Board of Directors decided to publish the second issue of EEA (JJEE-EEA 2019). In the second issue, we announced the launch of an international environmental education collaborative research project, inviting research proposals from members of JSFEE and four partner associations. Ten research projects and two editorials were published in JJEE-EEA 2019 from the 12 proposals that were received and considered for publication. Ⅱ. Structure of the "JJEE-EEA 2021"Two issues of EEA featured a total of 27 papers (including editorials) that presented novel and diverse perspectives as well as insights into EE research in Asia. When we published JJEE-EEA