Global Counterspace Capabilities:
An Open Source Assessment
Secure World Foundation
April 2020
The following excerpts from the report summarize Japan’s counterspace capabilities.
Country Summary
Japan has long been a well-established space actor and its space activities have historically been entirely non-military in nature. In 2008, Japan made a change to its constitution to enable national security-related activities in space and more recently, government officials have begun to publicly speak about developing various counterspace capabilities or developing military SSA capacity.
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