Hiten, Japan's first lunar spacecraft, launched 1990

The Hiten spacecraft, launched January 24, 1990, was Japan's first lunar spacecraft.  It was also the first lunar spacecraft from a country other than the United States and the Soviet Union.  It was the first lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976. 

Hiten was manufactured by Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, which later became a division of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). 

Hiten experienced some problems after launch, but the issues were solved and Hiten entered a lunar orbit.  It released a small orbiter, Hagoromo, on its first flyby of the moon.  Hagoromo's transmitter failed but its orbit was confirmed visually from Earth.

Hiten was deliberately crashed onto the lunar surface in April 1993.