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Extended Knowledge and Products Based on Space Exploration
It is reported that more than 60 women astronauts, while the number of male astronauts of about 500, have flown in space, so the gender ratio of...
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Russia and the Rest
The Soviet Union was once the most powerful nation in space, but taking on its role at the end of the Cold War, Russia has fallen behind the United...
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Infrastructure and Organization
Japan’s space programme has an extensive infrastructure of launch sites (e.g. Tanegashima, Uchinoura) and headquarter and control centres (e.g....
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Human Spaceflight
Human spaceflight inevitably became the most high-profile part of Japan’s space programme. Following an early American invitation to join the...
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Tokamaks and Spherical Tokamaks
Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of the quest for fusion power will know that for many years, the leading candidate has been a magnetic...
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The New Space Race
This chapter discusses new and exciting era of both manned and unmanned space efforts racing against each other to return to the Moon and then on to...
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The Tiresome Debate about Germany’s Role in the World: From Overcoming Division to the New German Question
From Russia to the refugee crisis, from the eurozone crisis to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), from Brexit to Trump—in a...
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North Sea and Baltic Sea in the Ice Age
Both the North Sea and the Baltic Sea owe their present shape to a large extent to overprinting during the Ice Age. The English Channel was formed by...
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Transatlantic and Other Strategic Partnerships: Germany in the Concert of Global System Change
In addition to the erosion of Europe from within, the increased pressure on the external borders by Russia and the developments on the southern...
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Sanctions
Cooperation between the United States and the European Union to implement restrictive sanctions on Russia and Iran represents one of the greatest...
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Conclusion: Japan in Comparative Asian and Global Perspective
Japan was the fourth country into space, after the USSR, USA and France, but ahead of China, India and the two Korean states. Despite Japan’s early...
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Trouble in Paradise
At some point in the very near future the dream of human space settlement will either thrive and become the next step for human civilization or die...
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Fortitude: Hannah Arendt/Maria Tereza Leme Fleury
BRICSBRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), the acronym coined two decades ago by economist Jim O’NeillO’Neill, Jim to describe five...
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Postscript: Flying into Space is a Human Dream
As the book was being written and handed in, I took a long breath of fresh air, like an astronaut returning safely to Earth from space, and suddenly...
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Magnetic Mirrors
Following the pinchPinches in the historical development of fusion devices were magnetic mirrorsMagnetic mirrors, which confined plasmasPlasmas by...
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Change of Direction
There was a significant change in direction in Japan’s space programme in 1998, the key moment being the firing of the Taepo Dong missile by the...
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Wonderful Space Life: Part One
Throughout human history, tales of extraterrestrials and unidentified flying objects (UFO) have circulated widely in the world, and children have...
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Inertial Electrostatic Confinement
Inertial electrostatic confinement (IECInertial electrostatic confinement (IEC)) uses electric fields to heat plasmaPlasmas to fusion...
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Future
Japan has a planning system in place for its rockets, satellites and missions into the 2030s. The first key priority is the introduction of a new...
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Climate Reconstructions and Models
While geoscientists relied exclusively on field studies in their attempts to reconstruct the course of the Ice Age, their work is increasingly being...