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According to the author, Japan, already considered one of the major space powers, is gearing itself towards the increasing exploration and exploitation of space in the 21st century. He looks at Japan's space infrastructure, its medium-term objectives, U.S.-Japanese relations in space technology, the impact of the Japan's space programme on Sino-Japanese relationship, significant international impact of this programme among other issues. (DÜI-Sen)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Farge, James K. -- Introduction / Rosenthal, Joel T. -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Report of a Thesis on the Will in Medieval England -- 2. A List of Thirteenth-Century English Wills -- 3. The Influence of Canon Law on the Property Rights of Married Women in England -- 4. Canon Law and English Institutions: Some Notes on Current Research -- 5. The Formation and Stability of Marriage in Fourteenth-Century England: Evidence of an Ely Register -- 6. Marriage and Family in English Conciliar and Synodal Legislation -- 7. Choice of Marriage Partner in the Middle Ages: Development and Mode of Application of a Theory of Marriage -- 8. Marriage Theory and Practice in the Conciliar Legislation and Diocesan Statutes of Medieval England -- 9. The Wife of Bath and Her Four Sisters: Reflections on a Woman's Life in the Age of Chaucer -- 10. English Wills and the Records of the Ecclesiastical and Civil Jurisdictions -- 11. Theory and Practice: Marriage of the Unfree and the Poor in Medieval Society -- 12. The European Family and Canon Law -- 13. Maritalis affectio Revisited -- 14. The Bishop of Rome to a Barbarian King on the Rituals of Marriage -- 15. Sexuality, Marriage, Celibacy, and the Family in Central and Northern Italy: Christian Legal and Moral Guides in the Early Middle Ages -- 16. The Bequest of Land in England in the High Middle Ages: Testaments and the Law -- Bibliography of Michael M. Sheehan, CSB

This edited volume analyses a number of controversial policies and strategies relating to Space activities, and to place these in a broader theoretical perspective. The book reveals the relationship between activities in Outer Space and terrestrial international relations