SHINTO RESEARCH AND THE HUMANITIES IN JAPAN : Editorial & Introductionwith Willem B. Drees, “Zygon Goes Global: East Asian Voices”; and Thomas John Hastings, “Extending the Global Academic Table: An Introduction.”Where Are We?with CHEN Na, “Why Is Confucianism Not a Religion? The Impact of Orientalism”; KAMATA Toji, “Shinto Research and the Humanities in Japan”; KIM Seung Chul, “Religion and Science in Dialogue: An Asian Christian View”; and LEE Yu‐Ting, “East Asia and Human Knowledge – A Personal Quest.”How Did We Get There?with HSU Kuang‐Tai, “Science and Confucianism in Retrospect and Prospect”; SI Jia Jane and DONG Shaoxin, “Humanistic Approach of the Early Protestant Medical Missionaries in Nineteenth‐Century China”; and ZHAO Aidong, “American Missionaries Transmitting Science in Early Twentieth‐Century Eastern Tibet.”East Asian Engagements with Sciencewith Thomas John Hastings, “Kagawa Toyohiko (1888–1960): Witness to the Cosmic Drama”; INAGAKI Hisakazu, “Kagawa'sCosmic Purposeand Modernization in Japan”; HYUN Woosik, “An East Asian Mathematical Conceptualization of the Transhuman”; KANG Shin Ik, “Jumping Together: A Way from Sociobiology to Bio‐Socio‐Humanities”; FUKUSHIMA Shintaro, “Multilayered Sociocultural Phenomena: Associations between Subjective Well‐Being and Economic Status”; and SHIN Jaeshik, “Mapping One World: Religion and Science from an East Asian Perspective.”