Japan

By Garrett Reim
SkyDrive of Japan has formed a production subsidiary to build its electric SD-05 eVTOL aircraft at a Suzuki Motor company manufacturing plant starting in 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
The company says the trials are an “important step” as the AAM industry prepares to introduce eVTOL aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Japan’s space startups—and their U.S. subsidiaries—are playing a prominent role in several U.S. Space Force and NASA missions.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
Malaysia’s largest oil refiner Petronas and Japanese petroleum company Idemitsu have signed a memorandum of understanding.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Astroscale Japan has received an $80 million grant from the Japanese government to “image and diagnose” a large, defunct satellite.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
The new cargo terminal at Tokyo Narita Airport will be leased to All Nippon Airways.
Airports & Networks

Asia Pacific Staff
A policy review document released this week shows it will take seven years to complete.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Industry partners in the three-nation Global Combat Air Program have reached a further collaboration agreement.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield
Japanese carrier Skymark Airlines is continuing to benefit from strong domestic demand, although this was not enough to fully offset the carrier’s rising costs.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
The U.S.-Japan partnership is reportedly intended to counter growing threats of hypersonic missile technology from China, North Korea and Russia.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Ben Goldstein
The Hexa is a single-seat, unwinged multicopter with a range of 15 mi. (24 km) and maximum cruise speed of 55 kt.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
The Japan Air Self Defense Force's Kawasaki C-2 airlifter could carry long-range anti-surface missiles that ignite after being air dropped.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The 14-aircraft fleet, all based at the JGSDF Camp in Kisarazu, stood down on July 22.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
Japan is doubling down on stand-off weapons and counter-strike capabilities as it describes the security landscape it faces as its “greatest trial since WWII.”
Budget, Policy & Operations

By David Casey
Ministers hope the agreement will lead to the launch of nonstop Croatia-Japan routes.
Airports & Networks

By Tony Osborne
Italy will send four F-35s to Komatsu air base on the northern coast of Honshu, the Japanese mainland—the first Italian deployment to Japan since the 1920s.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (Roman) could push open the door to the discovery of vast numbers of planets.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Japan has ordered additional Leonardo AW101 heavy helicopters and will upgrade its existing fleet, providing a further boost to the Yeovil, UK-based production.
Paris Air Show

By Steve Trimble
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has finalized contracts with Japan’s MOD to enter the next phase of development of a new hypersonic weapons portfolo.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Jen DiMascio
U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Jerry Moran, along with eight other senators, will meet with French officials in Paris to promote U.S. aerospace technology.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Japan’s IHI has unveiled tech breakthroughs that could advance development of electric and fuel cell propulsion systems for aircraft in the 2030s.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Japan's new Space Security Initiative aims to expand the use of space-based technology to complement its defense requirements.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
The move expands the current target for airlines to have at least 10% SAF in their total fuel uptake.
Airlines & Lessors

By Garrett Reim
Tokyo-based Gitai, a startup developing several space robots, has raised about ¥4 billion ($29 million) in funding as part of a Series B extension round.
Commercial Space

By Adrian Schofield
International airline capacity in the Asia-Pacific market is continuing its upward momentum.
Airlines & Lessors