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Politics and cost have prevented Japan from putting a human up there but, they say, their cosmic focus is not the vain flag-planting of the space race, rather research and exploration. A strategy that has led to them developing a rocket vastly superior to the American model.
Photographer: Shinichi Ito Writer: Robert Bound
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