An organization founded in 2014 to build and operate astronomical facilities in East Asia. EAO is jointly owned by the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC), the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) of Taiwan. Its headquarters are in Hilo, Hawaii. In 2015 the EAO took over operation of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii.
http://www.eaobservatory.org Official East Asian Observatory website.