Japan's renewed push for homegrown airliner faces turbulent path
TOKYO -- Japan's new effort to develop a next-generation airliner by 2035 will seek to involve multiple private-sector companies, in a departure from the failed Mitsubishi SpaceJet program, but faces the same uncertainties.
A draft strategy unveiled Wednesday by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry acknowledges that "it is difficult for any single private-sector company to develop an aircraft."