Japan and the United States on Friday, July 10, issued a joint declaration, promising extensive cooperation in lunar exploration that will include putting Japanese astronauts...
Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi will launch back into space between September and December 2020 onboard NASA’s new U.S. SpaceX Dragon spacecraft if preparations go smoothly. ...
When United States President Donald Trump thundered “America loves India, respects India” before a crowd of 125,000 at the world’s biggest cricket stadium in Gujarat...
What is Japan doing in terms of helping build food security in at home and around the world? Japan made global headlines following the death...
As 2019 comes to a close, we at JAPAN Forward are reflecting on the stories that moved Japan this year, and the stories our...
Thanks to you, our dear readers, JAPAN Forward reached new milestones in monthly and daily readerships in 2019. Millions of users around the world followed our...
Thanks to you, our dear readers, JAPAN Forward reached new milestones in monthly and daily readerships in 2019. Millions of users around the world followed our...
Japan’s space agency announced that its Hayabusa2 space probe departed from asteroid Ryugu at 10:05 A.M. on November 13, 2019, Japan Time, embarking on its...
Japan’s “Kounotori” H-2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV) 8, which transports supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), performed a predawn lift-off successfully on September 25, Japan Time....
Japan’s spacecraft Hayabusa2 succeeded in making a second landing on the asteroid Ryugu, a space rock orbiting between Earth and Mars, at about 10 A.M....
On May 15, the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced they would be starting a new unique project in collaboration with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration...
There can now be no room for doubt that Hayabusa2 has given us the most dynamic event in Japan’s history of space and planetary exploration...