{"id":527200,"date":"2026-07-01T07:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527200\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:24:18","slug":"rakuten-satellite-project-to-receive-up-to-912-million-in-japan-govt-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527200\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakuten satellite project to receive up to $912 million in Japan govt grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">TOKYO, June 30 (Reuters) &#8211; The Japanese government will grant up to \u200c148 billion yen ($912 million) to \u200cRakuten Group to help it build a \u200bsatellite communications network, industry group Communications and Information Network Association of Japan said on Tuesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Rakuten, an e-commerce, financial \u200cand telecommunications \u2060conglomerate, is in talks with AST SpaceMobile of the \u2060United States to form a joint venture for the project, a Rakuten \u200bspokesperson said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">\u2022Japan \u200bcurrently depends \u200bon SpaceX&#8217;s Starlink \u200cand other services offered by foreign companies for low-orbit satellite communications, and it aims to nurture home-grown operators to boost its economic security.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">\u2022Low-orbit \u200csatellite communication services enable \u200bthe use of \u200bsmartphones and \u200bother telecommunication devices even \u200cwhen users are out \u200bof the \u200brange of cellular base stations or a natural disaster has knocked \u200bthose \u200cbase stations out of service.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">($1 = 162.3300 \u200byen)  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing \u200bby Sharon Singleton)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO, June 30 (Reuters) &#8211; The Japanese government will grant up to \u200c148 billion yen ($912 million) to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[9187,61,224387,60,219921,21200,82,247],"class_list":["post-527200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ast-spacemobile","tag-ie","tag-industry-group-communications-and-information","tag-ireland","tag-rakuten","tag-satellite-communications","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}