Japan sends jets against Russian planes
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Japan scrambled fighter jets yesterday as a pair of Russian military planes flew along the nation’s northern coastline, the defense ministry said.
Two IL-38 planes flew along shorelines of Hokkaido, Aomori and Akita, but stayed away from Japanese airspace, the ministry added.
Japan’s Self-Defense Forces “responded by scrambling fighters,” according to a brief press release from the ministry which came with a map of the Russian planes’ flight path.
The incident came only days after Russian bombers briefly came into the Japanese airspace last Thursday, prompting Tokyo to scramble fighter jets.
At the time, two Tu-95 bombers breached airspace claimed by Japan near the isle of Okinoshima off Fukuoka in southern Japan for nearly two minutes shortly after midday.
A total of four F-2 fighter jets from the Air Self-Defense Force scrambled against them, a ministry official said at the time.
The Japanese foreign ministry said it filed a formal protest with the Russian embassy in Tokyo over the violation and urged them to investigate it.
In February two Russian Su-27 fighters breached Japan’s airspace for just over a minute off Hokkaido in what was reported to be the first such incident in five years.
Tokyo and Moscow never signed a peace treaty after World War II. Despite an important commercial relationship, they remain at loggerheads over the sovereignty of islands north of the Japanese main island of Hokkaido.
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