Japan regularly intercepts Russian forces near its territorial waters and airspace.
Japan scrambled fighter jets to respond to Russian bombers, fighters and a surveillance plane at least four times this week ...
Japan fighter aircraft were scrambled 448 times in the last nine months – a 14 percent decrease from the same timeframe last ...
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Why Japan calls its aircraft carrier a destroyer

Japan insists that its Izumo class ships are helicopter destroyers, not aircraft carriers, yet their size and layout tell a ...
One of the many capabilities of the new SSM is the ability to spiral during its attack run to help evade close-in gun systems ...
Japan said on Sunday that Chinese fighter jets had aimed their radar at Japanese military aircraft in two "dangerous" incidents near Japan's Okinawa islands, an account Beijing disputed. "These radar ...
(Reuters) — Japan said on Sunday that Chinese fighter jets had directed fire-control radar at Japanese military aircraft in two “dangerous” incidents near Japan’s Okinawa islands, an account Beijing ...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan said early Sunday that it has protested to China after a military jet that took off from the Chinese carrier Liaoning locked its radar on Japanese fighter jets near the southern ...
CNN — Tokyo (AP) — Japan said Monday that Chinese military aircraft locked radar on its fighter jets even though there was a safe distance between them, denying Beijing’s accusation of interference ...