Chinese fighter jets targeted Japanese aircraft with radar over international waters. Japan's Defence Ministry reported the incidents, call...

Japan's fighter jets were scrambled on Friday to track Russian warplanes, including nuclear-capable bombers, near its airspace. This incide...

Japan's military intercepted foreign aircraft 704 times in the past year. Most interceptions involved Chinese aircraft and drones. Scramble...

Japan has lodged a serious protest with Russia after a Russian patrol plane entered its airspace three times, marking the first confirmed i...

Japan's military scrambled fighter jets after two Russian patrol planes circled the country on Thursday, though no airspace violation occur...

Japan protested China's military plane intruding over the Danjo Islands near Kyushu. The breach, lasting approximately two minutes, prompte...

Japan deployed fighter jets following a breach of its airspace by a Chinese military surveillance aircraft, marking a first for such an eve...

Japan's defence ministry said on Monday it scrambled a fighter jet to monitor a Chinese BZK-005 military drone spotted flying between Japan...

Japan said on Friday it scrambled fighter jets after two Russian IL-38 information-gathering aircraft were spotted flying between the Sea o...

Japan has raised security concerns after China completed second phase of joint patrols with Russia over the Western Pacific on Wednesday. T...

While China has conducted similar operations in the past, including one in May, the latest large-scale military drills close to Japanese is...

The planes did not breach territorial airspace, the defence ministry told AFP, and it was the fourth time since November that long-distance...

The Quad leaders on Tuesday warned against attempts to "change the status quo by force", although they avoided direct references to Russia ...

Japan, which has volatile ties and border disputes with key neighbours China, Russia and South Korea, routinely sends jets to defend its te...

Rising tensions in Asian waters, where territorial disputes are boosting the risk that skirmishes may explode into armed conflict, even war.

On Friday six Russian TU-95 bombers were seen flying two by two, with one pair moving around the Okinawan islands and then going north alon...

The Sino-Japan row over disputed islands in the East China Sea took a new turn today as Beijing said its surveillance plane was "disturbed"...