Veteran satellite journalist Peter J. Brown has just written a nice review of In Defense of Japan on his new blog Japanese in Space.
One of the issues with In Defense of Japan is that it is not media friendly and not designed to be media friendly as we wanted to reach decision makers and analysts. Undoing misconceptions of Japan’s space program by decades of superficial coverage can’t be done by engaging the mass media as the message just does not jive, or jars with media shibboleths. However, we are finding that people who are seriously interested in this area find the time to read In Defense of Japan through and “get” our arguments.
Peter’s take amounts to: “…this writer is hard pressed indeed to identify any recent book in English that comes close to covering as much ground as this one does.”
Here is an excerpt:
Review of In Defense of Japan by Peter J Brown
Many thanks Peter and keep up the good work on Japanese in Space!
