去年4月日本政府作出决定,允许并鼓励日本民间企业购买美国企业制造的卫星,还可委托美国发射,以便开展卫星通信业务。这个决定是在日美贸易摩擦日益激烈的形势下,日本政府采取进一步开放国内市场的对策的一个内容,是日本发展航天事业方针的一个重要转折。 In April last year, the Japanese government decided to allow and encourage Japanese private enterprises to buy satellites made by U.S. companies and could also commission the United States for launching satellite communications. This decision is an element of the Japanese government’s proposal to further liberalize the domestic market under the increasingly fierce trade frictions between Japan and the United States and is an important turning point for Japan’s development of the aerospace industry.