Hmmm ... the CBS Evening News channel on YouTube said it was a private company, another subthread here refers to one. I wonder what he arrangement is. JAXA subcontracted it?
>JAXA is the Japanese national air and space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003.
Maybe they're confusing that with the last Japanese-originated lunar landing (That was a private company, ispace, that attempted and was unsuccessful)