Takuya Wakimoto, SPI contributor, has had his peer-reviewed article “Crisis in Space: Assessing Japan’s Legal Gaps in Space Emergency Response,” publish in ScienceDirect. This paper explores the legal and institutional challenges in Japan’s space emergency response framework, identifying coordination gaps and proposing pragmatic reforms to strengthen national readiness.
The article will be free to view on ScienceDirect until December 17, 2025. The article can be found at this link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964625000529?dgcid=author
