November 1, 1971

November 1, 1971

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Special Report: Japan's Rise in Aerospace

Japanese Press Avionics Growth

Special Report: Japan's Rise in Aerospace

Japan Plans Air Defense Net Expansion

Special Report: Japan's Rise in Aerospace

Japanese Aerospace Industry Nears Parity with the West

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Special Report: Japan's Rise in Aerospace

Japanese Press Avionics Growth

First steps being taken to develop a significant capability; government hopes to use more domestic designs in aircraft
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Japan Plans Air Defense Net Expansion

Tokyo-Japan plans to expand and augment its air defense network over the next five years as the island nation begins to shoulder a greater share of the burden of its defense. Just how far the Japanese will progress in implementing current plans during their fourth defense buildup program, a five-year commitment for the nation’s defense forces, depends upon the final outcome of budget requests currently undergoing severe scrutiny by the Finance Ministry.
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Japanese Aerospace Industry Nears Parity with the West

Tokyo—Japanese aerospace industry is fast approaching a level of technical maturity comparable in several areas with that of its Western counterparts. It will launch a series of ambitious design-development programs over the next 10 years to further narrow the remaining gaps.
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New Programs Entering Production Stage

Tokyo—Japanese aerospace industry is honing its technical and state-of-the-art capabilities on a number of advanced aircraft programs now entering the production stage. The projects represent the latest steps in the evolution of an industry that had to begin virtually from scratch in the early 1950s following its dissolution, loss of facilities and technical personnel at the conclusion of World War 2.
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New Hardware Planned for Japan Defense

Tokyo—Qualitative strength of the Japanese armed forces will be improved substantially during the course of the fourth five-year defense buildup program beginning next April despite a recent tentative government decision to scale back the military budget for the period by over $1 billion.
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Management

Bank Forces Britten-norman Receivership

By Herbert J. Coleman8 min

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Realigned National Space Program Adopted By Japanese

Tokyo—Japan is building toward the launching of a series of advanced applications satellites beginning in 1975, employing a melding of Japanese and U.S. technology. These are being preceded by the current round of scientific satellite launches designed to provide the technical base for the second-generation operations.
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Japan Pushes Airways Modernization Plan

Tokyo—Ambitious attempt to modernize Japanese airways will be accelerated sharply during the coming months in the wake of last summer’s disastrous mid-air collision that claimed 162 lives (see p. 47). The effort was already in the first year of a scheduled five-year modernization plan when the Ministry of Transport’s Civil Aviation Bureau (CAB), reacting to the national shock from the accident, one other fatal crash and a rash of widely-reported “near misses,” decided to squeeze five years of system improvement into three.
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Air Transport

Rail Trends Spur Airline Concern

Initial ‘live-and-let-live’ attitude turning critical in face of rail firm’s recent advertising, requests for added money

By Harold D. Watkins7 min

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Decision Nears for Japan Airbus Partner

Tokyo—Aircraft Industry Council, a joint government-industry body which acts as final arbiter on commercial programs, will decide next month the overseas partner Japan should have in the development and production of its proposed 200-passenger YX short-haul airbus.
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