{"id":768344,"date":"2026-06-29T19:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768344\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:03:12","slug":"rakuten-led-group-set-for-subsidies-to-build-japans-answer-to-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768344\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakuten-led group set for subsidies to build Japan&#8217;s answer to Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/telecommunication\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Telecommunication<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Government readies $900m in support for homegrown satellite-to-mobile access<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260629N Starlink\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink satellites lifts off into orbit after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The Japanese government is expected to provide 150 billion yen ($926 million) in subsidies to a Rakuten Group-led consortium that will develop a homegrown satellite communications network, Nikkei has learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Telecommunication Government readies $900m in support for homegrown satellite-to-mobile access A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink satellites&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[228233,64,63,25055,14550,38117,365613,128,11408,285,5707,25395],"class_list":["post-768344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-answer","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-build","tag-group","tag-japans","tag-rakuten-led","tag-science","tag-set","tag-space","tag-starlink","tag-subsidies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}