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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Japan's national air and space agency
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Summary

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is a space agency[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of space agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,927 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: International Astronautical Federation[3], Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee[4], Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems[5], ITU Radiocommunication Sector[6], Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository[7]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Tokyo[8]
  • Country: Japan[9]
  • Instance of: academic publisher[10]
  • Main regulatory text: Act on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, National Research and Development Agency[11]
  • Follows: National Space Development Agency[12], National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan[13]
  • Headquarters location: Chōfu[14]
  • Child organization or unit: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science[15]
  • Commons category: JAXA[16]
  • Inception: October 1, 2003[17]
  • Parent organization or unit: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology[18]
  • Official website: https://global.jaxa.jp/[19]
  • Topic's main category: Category:JAXA[20]
  • Official name: 国立研究開発法人宇宙航空研究開発機構[21]
  • Legal form: National Research and Development Agency[22]
  • Short name: JAXA[23], ジャクサ[24]
  • Regulated by: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology[25], Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications[26], Cabinet Office[27], Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry[28], Ministry of Finance of Japan[29]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[30], Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher[31]
  • Social media followers: 397,966[32], 415,293[33], 446,244[34]

Why It Matters

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 99 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [3] ↑ . iafastro.org. iafastro.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [4] ↑ . iadc-home.org. iadc-home.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [6] ↑ . itu.int. itu.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [7] ↑ . jpcoar.repo.nii.ac.jp. Retrieved . jpcoar.repo.nii.ac.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . jaxa.jp. jaxa.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . mext.go.jp.. mext.go.jp.. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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