- Produced by:
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Directed by:
- The Space Poem Chain Compiling Committee
- Chairperson:
- Haruo Saji (President, Suzuka Junior College)
- Committee members:
- Hiroo Inokuchi (Advisor, JAXA), Yasunori Matogawa (Professors emeritus,JAXA/Director, Kodomo Uchu Mirai Association), Hisashi Hirabayashi (Director, JAXA Space Education Center), Junichi Watanabe (Director of the Information Center and Outreach Department at the National Institute of Natural Sciences/NINS National Astronomical Observatory)
- Secretary:
- Fram Kitagawa (Chairman, Art Front Gallery)
- Supervisor:
- Makoto Ooka (Poet)
- Judge:
- Kiwao Nomura (Poet)
- Japanese-English translation:
- Janine Beichman (Professor, Daito Bunka University)
- English-Japanese translation:
- Kiwao Nomura
- Contributions:
- Approximately ten Japanese and foreign poets chosen by Kiwao Nomura will submit poems.
- Period:
- September 5, 2008 through February 27, 2009
- Space Poem Chain:
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- 1st poem:
- Makoto Ooka (Poet)
- 2nd poem:
- Maiko Sugimoto (Poet)
- 3rd poem:
- Junichi Watanabe (Director of the Information Center and Outreach Department at the NINS National Astronomical Observatory)
- Fourth poem and later:
- Public applications and contributions will be compiled and edited.
- Deadline for public applications:
- Will be announced on the website.
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- Announcement:
- Friday on the week of the deadline in principle.
- Web Design:
- 777Interactive
- KAYAC Inc.
- Photo Supervisor:
- Junichi Watanabe (Director of the Information Center and Outreach Department at the NINS National Astronomical Observatory)
- Cooperation:
- NHK World Radio Japan
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