Bill Mak, Marcus Werner and others organized the Kyoto University International Symposium “International Conference on Traditional Sciences in Asia 2017 -- East-West Encounter in the Science of Heaven and Earth,” at Kyoto University, with the support of the Hakubi Center, Institute for Research in Humanities, Unit of Synergetic Studies for Space, and World Data Center for Geomagnetism (October 25-28, 2017).