MADRID, June 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Japanese government has approved this Tuesday its space security strategy for the next ten years in the face of increasing Russian and Chinese militarization, which will imply the development of larger defense projects.

In the Concept in Space Security document, the Japanese government plans to expand the use of space to ensure the protection of the Asian country’s national security and create conditions for further developing the space branch of its Armed Forces.

Thus, Japan has set itself the goal of joining the Joint Special Operations Center, which is led by the United States and also comprises Britain, Canada and Australia, according to information from television channel NHK.

As such, the authorities have confirmed that this will increase Japan’s chances of monitoring possible threats, especially from commercial and military satellites from third countries.

It is hoped that this will also make it possible to collect more information on satellites in order to achieve greater efficiency when responding to various threats, including possible attacks, while respecting the Japanese Constitution.

In this regard, the Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, made efforts to strengthen interactions with the United States and other countries in order to “enhance the defensive capacity of the Japanese forces in terms of neutralizing the communication systems of possible adversaries.”

The document emphasizes that it is important to strengthen the interaction between the Japanese Ministry of Defense and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and increase support for private companies developing space projects to increase their competitiveness in the world and reduce costs.

This ‘road map’ has worked as Beijing continues to push to develop its own space development project, which has led to criticism of the possibility that competition between China and the United States will increase in this regard. Russia, for its part, is also increasing its military capabilities in relation to space.

However, the government has also expressed reticence about the “rapid escalation of threats” by some countries, such as China, which are significantly strengthening their information gathering systems in space, as well as developing capabilities to attack satellites. .

Regarding its own counter-attack capabilities, Japan in turn promised to increase the speed of information transmission by combining several small satellites and improving its visual data interpretation technology through the use of artificial intelligence.