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Japan Passes Overhaul of Space Management Structure

Here is the Space News version of the Defense News story I put out earlier: it’s a case of better late than never, and I will be trying to cover developments in various media as well as for my academic and policy paper requirements. “Please watch this space!”

I had a long talk with Saadia Pekkanen, my coauthor of In Defense of Japan and everything we predicted is coming on slowly and surely. How things will pan out immediately will quickly be seen in the upcoming budget request. However, a massive revision of the Basic Plan of 2009 is also a top priority of the new Uchusenryaku Shitsu (Space Strategy Office) and we will have concrete evidence of the next 5-year plan then. The timetable for the revised Basic Plan could be as early as within this year. This and a Space Activities Act are the top priorities, according to Takafumi Matsui, who one of the core group behind the changes.

Space News version of my earlier Defense News story

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by japanspace on July 9, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by japanspace on July 9, 2012

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Another Positive Review for In Defense of Japan

Nice bright shiny e-mail from SUP recently reading as follows:

In Defense of Japan (Saadia M. Pekkanen and Paul Kallender-Umezu) was reviewed in Social Science Japan Journal Vol. 15, No. 1 (Winter 2012) on 6/21/2012.

“[V]ery ambitious and admirable. The book is based on very extensive research and it provides a good record of the path of Japanese space policy development. It is a good book to use as a concise data book of Japanese space history.”—Kazuto Suzuki, Social Science Japan Journal.

This is nice to see, especially after Rick Sturdevant called it a “model analysis.” But, shucks, what does he know about space, eh?

“In Defense of Japan draws substantively from an impressive number and variety of sources . . . [T]he authors siphon a wealth of factual detail to document the market-to-military trend . . . Anyone interested in reading a thoroughly researched, up-to-date, English-language treatise on the dual-use nature of Japan’s evolving space activities need look no further than this particular volume, which might serve as a model for historically grounded analyses of other national space policies and programs.”—Rick W. Sturdevant, High Frontier
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by japanspace on June 24, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by japanspace on June 24, 2012

https://japanspace.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/another-positive-review-for-in-defense-of-japan-3/

Text of Review of In Defense of Japan by Foreign Affairs Magazine

It’s nice that Andrew J. Nathan Class of 1919 Professor Columbia University Political Science took the time to review In Defense of Japan for the January/February 2011 edition of Foreign Affairs and even nicer when he’s got a lot of time for the book too.

We would like to say a very big thank you to Prof. Nathan.

Here is the full review:

 

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by japanspace on March 20, 2012  •  Permalink
Posted in Foreign Affairs, In Defense of Japan, In Defense of Japan: From the Market to the Military in Space Policy, Reviews of In Defense of Japan, Saadia Pekkanen.
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Posted by japanspace on March 20, 2012

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Blog Review of In Defense of Japan

Veteran satellite journalist Peter J. Brown has written a nice review of In Defense of Japan on his new blog Japanese in Space.

One of the issues with In Defense of Japan is that it is not media friendly and not designed to be media friendly as we wanted to reach decision makers and analysts. Undoing misconceptions of Japan’s space program by decades of superficial coverage can’t be done by engaging the mass media as the message just does not jive, or jars with media  shibboleths. However, we are finding that people who are seriously interested in this area find the time to read In Defense of Japan through and “get” our arguments.

Peter’s take amounts to: “…this  writer is hard pressed indeed to identify any recent book in English  that comes close to covering as much ground as this one does.”

Here is an excerpt:

Many thanks Peter and keep up the good work on Japanese in Space!

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by japanspace on March 20, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by japanspace on March 20, 2012

https://japanspace.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/blog-review-of-in-defense-of-japan/