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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