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Maybe they're confusing that with the last Japanese-originated lunar landing (That was a private company, ispace, that attempted and was unsuccessful)

>JAXA is the Japanese national air and space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003.

CBS was probably talking about LEV-2, one of the rovers on board, which did have some contributions from private companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Lander_for_Investigating....