From the summer of 2006, when the First International Journal Conference of EASTS was held in Taipei, to the end of 2010, we have spent five long years preparing, editing, and publishing East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (EASTS). Nourished by the recent and continuing expansion in East Asian STS communities and activities, and also kindly supported by the larger traditions of international STS communities, our bold project, an international quarterly journal primarily based in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, has not only survived but has also been carrying on strongly. For the first publication period of three and a half years starting in September 2007, EASTS has published a total of fourteen issues, with the following ten subjects as special issues (including one double issue), plus three more issues containing only independent articles.
