Since Japan reported its earliest case of COVID-19 on 16 January 2020, foreign residents in Japan had to grapple with the challenges brought about by the pandemic when it imposed travel bans and placed the country under state of emergencies (and quasi emergencies) in 2020 to 2021. Meanwhile, the Philippines during these times underwent one of the harshest lockdowns in the world, with the mobility of much of the population being curtailed, when it imposed its first lockdown order on 17 March 2020. Vaccines began to be administered in mid-2021 in both these countries, with most of the populations receiving vaccines, twice or thrice (some even four times). International travel resumed despite precautionary border and quarantine measures in late-2021, and in mid-2022, both countries eased quarantine measures. Currently, it is safe to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has ended, although some quarters remain vigilant as another one might occur again soon, especially with the emergence of new virus strains. On the micro-level, families and individuals of both countries had to adjust their everyday lives as they were faced with numerous challenges such as lay-offs, business downturns, reduced economic and financial resources, as well as transformations in their daily routines and lifestyles spurred by the sudden shift to remote work and online schooling, where boundaries between work/school and home, public and private have been blurred. Of notable concern is also the pandemic’s effects on the migrants and non-citizens residing in both Japan and the Philippines. This volume examines the experiences and challenges of Filipinos in Japan and Japanese in the Philippines as they navigated through the impacts of the pandemic in their professional and personal lives. Utilizing various methodologies, such as ethnographies, autoethnographies, netnographies, interviews, and document analyses, the chapters in this volume offer a deeper comprehension of the transformation of migrant lives in a crisis such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic.