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In defense of Japan : from the market to the military in space policy / Saadia M. Pekkanen and Paul Kallender-Umezu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pekkanen, Saadia M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronautics and state--Japan.
- Astronautics and state.
- National security--Japan.
- National security.
- Astronautics, Military--Japan.
- Astronautics, Military.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (408 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Defense of Japan provides the first complete, up-to-date, English-language account of the history, politics, and policy of Japan's strategic space development. The dual-use nature of space technologies, meaning that they cut across both market and military applications, has had two important consequences for Japan. First, Japan has developed space technologies for the market in its civilian space program that have yet to be commercially competitive. Second, faced with rising geopolitical uncertainties and in the interest of their own economics, the makers of such technologies have been critical players in the shift from the market to the military in Japan's space capabilities and policy. This book shows how the sum total of market-to-military moves across space launch vehicles, satellites and spacecraft, and emerging related technologies, already mark Japan as an advanced military space power.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 The Market- to- Military Trend
- 2 Evolution of Japan’s Space Policy
- 3 The Players
- 4 Launch Vehicles
- 5 Satellites and Spacecraft
- 6 Emerging Technologies
- 7 In Defense of Japan
- Appendix I. Timeline of Principal Launches by or Involving the Japanese Space Program, 1955– 2009
- Appendix II. Basic Space Law 2008
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804775007
- 0804775001
- OCLC:
- 669494502
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