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Japan Looking into Space Forces

January 24, 2006 :: Kyodo :: News

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to study the feasibility of relaxing Japan’s restrictions on deploying space forces for defense purposes. According to the Kyodo Japanese news agency, the LDP will seek to deploy defense forces in space as long as they are not aimed at invading or spying other countries. The party plans to set up a special subcommittee to discuss the matter, which will convene in late January. The subcommittee will be headed by Takeo Kawamura, a House of Representatives member of the LDP and the former Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. The party will recommend to the government as early as August 2006 that a 1969 Diet resolution limiting Japan’s space development be changed to allow defense purposes. (Article)

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