Official issues: minutes, lists of participants, agenda, reports by working groups (General Affairs, Earth Observation, Communications, Space Science, Space Station and Microgravity, Space Transportation, Product Assurance).
Relevant subjects: ESA office in Tokyo; cooperation for MOS-1 and MOS-1b; agreement for ERS-1 and JERS-1; future remote sensing missions; polar platforms; ISY initiatives; ISO programme; ESA cornerstone preparation and assessment studies; ISAS activities; microgravity; space station strategy and precursor flights; NASDA/NASA coordination meetings; test facilities.
The file includes briefing note for the meeting; internal notes on the 15th ESA/Japan space transportation working group meeting (HOPE status, H2, HIMES, M5); correspondence concerning the draft minutes, the organisation and the attendance to the meeting, the visit to ESRIN by Japanese delegation; draft speech for ESA Director of Administration; personal notes.
The dossier also contains documents concerning the visit of ESA Director General Reimar Lust to Japan on 28-29 March 1990, including programme, correspondence, background notes and working documents.
The dossier includes documents concerning previous ESA/Japan meetings: report of the 14th meeting, held on 30 May – 1 June 1989, in Tokyo; press release on the 13th meeting, held on 20-23 June 1988, in Paris.

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