Over the next decade, Japan will embark on a mission to build up its space assets in order to enhance the U.S.-Japan alliance and to contain China.
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It will further expand the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) navigation constellation and its space reconnaissance satellites.
Japan will also start to develop a space-based missile early warning capability.