It was a highly tense situation because if the Russian plane had refused to stop breaching Japan’s airspace, the SDF jets could have been forced to proceed with warning shots. There is no doubt ...

Russian military ships and planes have ramped up their activity near Japan in recent months. A Russian IL-38 reconnaissance ...

Japan’s fiscal year runs from April 1 to March 31. Only one Chinese and one Russian aircraft, both patrol planes, entered Japanese airspace without permission this year. Approaching aircraft ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has told members of the Self-Defense Forces that he will work to fundamentally ...

Japan saw two airspace violations, according to the report, one each by Russia and China for the first half of FY 2024. Last year, in FY 2023, a Russian helicopter crossed over territorial waters ...

The Russian planes were "not adhering to international norms" when Italian and Norwegian NATO jets were mobilized.

Geopolitical tensions are increasingly shaping flight routes. The skies over Russia and Iran are already largely closed to Western airlines. If Beijing were to attack Taiwan, China’s airspace could be ...

Chinese and Russian planes also intruded into Japan's airspace during the period. In August, a Chinese intelligence-gathering aircraft flew for about two minutes over Japanese waters off the Danjo ...

Average CO2 emissions for flights between the UK and Japan have jumped by more than 21% since 2019 according to new data from ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba renewed a pledge Saturday to build up his country’s military and deepen ...

and the first confirmed flights of such craft in the Sea of Japan. (Translated from Japanese. Banner photo: Russian Il-38 patrol aircraft that violated Japanese airspace off Hokkaidō on September ...

Internal NATO discussions will cover contentious issues like responding to Russian airspace violations and ... "Indo-Pacific partners" -- Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea -- join ...