In May 2008, I had the pleasure and privilege of giving a talk at National Taiwan University on the occasion of the first anniversary of EASTS, the East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal. I have been following the journal since its inception, so in my talk, I presented a number of cases from my recent research considered in the light of how EASTS provides resources for analyzing the kind of material with which I have been grappling. In particular, I situated my talk in relation to the exciting position paper by Daiwie Fu in the first issue, “How Far Can East Asian STS Go?” that takes up the question of regional identity, postcoloniality, and deterritorialization. It is also in conversation with the important introduction by Dung-Shen Chen and Chia-Ling Wu on the links between democracy, public participation (including dissent), civil society, and technoscience throughout the East Asian region and beyond. In this comment, I will summarize the main points of my talk: what the journal offers me as a US-based STS scholar working on topics that refuse neat regional or national bounding, and how that might be applied to make sense of some actual examples. Picking up on the themes from Fu, Chen, and Wu, EASTS, offers three things that I have already found extremely helpful. First, the journal provides timely publication in English of empirically and historically grounded papers on East Asian science and technology. There is still relatively little Science & Technology Studies scholarship in English about East Asian cases. Scholarship on East Asian science and technology from such nearby disciplines as the history of science and political science tends to be marked by highly problematic meta-narratives that are obsessed with science and technology as an historical index of the rise and fall of civilizations, or of a putative contemporary distinction between inventive metropoles of the West and rapid follower metropoles of the East. The fact that these narratives are often also “actors’ categories,” fuelling nationalisms in East Asia as elsewhere, is part of what the journal brings under scrutiny. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal (2008) 2:433–438 DOI 10.1007/s12280-008-9056-3