TOKYO -- Japan's proliferating space startups are getting a boost from major corporations like Sony, All Nippon Airways parent ANA Holdings and Europe's Airbus group, which are taking stakes in the ventures in hopes of gaining knowledge for starting their own extraterrestrial businesses.
The increasing accessibility of space technology has birthed a wave of young Japanese or Japan-adjacent companies working in satellite communications, rocket launches and the like. Sony and Airbus recently invested in one such company, Tokyo-based Infostellar.
