Japan to create new space force over ‘new threats’ – PM Abe

in spaceforce •  5 years ago 

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said his country will create a space defense force to protect the country from technological threats.

Working closely with the US, the unit will protect Japan's interstellar interests, such as satellites and rockets, Sky News reported.

 Japanese PM Shinzo Abe. © Reuters / Kim Kyung-hoon

Abe also said on Monday he wanted his country to defend itself from cyber threats and from electromagnetic interference to its satellites. 

The Space Domain Mission Unit will begin work in April. It will be added to an existing air base in Fuchu, close to Tokyo and initially be staffed with 20 people.

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Who's threatening them? That's what happens to the US lackeys, or uses them to consume them in its own wars.

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