The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAXA" id="mwAXU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="JAXA"> Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Lander_for_Investigating_Moon" id="mwAXY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Smart Lander for Investigating Moon">probe</a> landed on the moon, making Japan the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the moon.<sup about="#mwt116" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"}}' id="cite_ref-21" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_19#cite_note-21" id="mwAXc" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 21;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAXg">[21]</span></a></sup>
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