UID:
edocfu_9959233294802883
Format:
1 online resource (408 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8047-7500-1
Content:
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.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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List of Tables and Figures --
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Preface --
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List of Abbreviations --
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1 The Market- to- Military Trend --
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2 Evolution of Japan’s Space Policy --
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3 The Players --
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4 Launch Vehicles --
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5 Satellites and Spacecraft --
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6 Emerging Technologies --
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7 In Defense of Japan --
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Appendix I. Timeline of Principal Launches by or Involving the Japanese Space Program, 1955– 2009 --
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Appendix II. Basic Space Law 2008 --
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Notes --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-0063-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780804775007
