Japan Aerospace Bureau

"NASA explores space, USAF fights in space, ESA set up places in space and sends people up, Japan builds in space, and the Soviets lift things in Orbit while watching the Americans."

- Near Orbit The Japan Aerospace Bureau exist for space exploration and construction and various other activities carried out beyond Earth. In the Cyberpunk universe it's one of few space agencies in the world.

Overview
The Japanese Aerospace Bureau traded the ability to mass produce cheap, efficient workshacks for access to space via ESA spaceplanes. As a result, close to 85% of all workshacks and space stations are Japanese built. The JAB does not have much high mass lifting capacity or passenger lift ability, although Japanese technology built the Killimanjaro massdriver (This was the first massdriver used on a Japanese railroad in the 1980s!) The Japanese are also the main manufactures of heavy colony construction equipment, including their recent "mobile construction suits" used in building the O'Neill colony at L-5. Recently, the Japanese are beginning to worry about their aggressive EEC partners. They have taken to arming their MC suits with anti-sat weapons.

The Japanese are the primary supplier of habitats, parts, gear, and cheap lifting systems for light payloads. They control 50-60% of all massdriver tech. The Japanese want to help NASA as this will give them a heavy payload lifting ability of their own, as well as a crack at the Asteroids and Mars. Bureau japonais de l'aéronautique