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Launch delayed
; ...the first all-Japanese satellite-launching rocket for at least one day because of stormy weather, Reuter reports from Tanega-shima. Launch of the H-II - the first Japanese rocket capable of putting large communications and earth observation satellites...
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Japanese rocket fuels fears of arms race in East Asia
; ...to deliver a nuclear weapon anywhere in the world. The planned launch of the H-II rocket from the southern island of Tanega-shima comes amid increasing concern that a hi-tech arms race in East Asia has begun. The most destabilising development so...
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Does Japan have lift-off?
; ...Last week, the Japanese successfully launched a new rocket, the H-II, from the space centre on the southern island of Tanega-shima. After a decade of development and an investment of almost $2.5bn, the H-II is intended to reduce Japan's reliance on...
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Spirit crew is on song.(News)
; ...we've got to sample a little of the local culture in Hishino, which is a modest-sized town with a fishing harbour on Tanega Shima, one of the Nansei Islands just off the south-western tip of Japan. ``Nobody speaks English, and it becomes a bit more...
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