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04-08-2025
- Politics
2 China Coast Guard Ships Enter Japan Waters off Senkakus
News from Japan Society Aug 4, 2025 11:47 (JST) Naha, Okinawa Pref., Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)--Two Chinese coast guard ships, again, intruded into Japanese territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture on Monday, the Japan Coast Guard said the same day. The Haijing ships entered the waters off Taisho Island of the uninhibited islet chain in the southernmost Japan prefecture around 12:20 a.m. and approached a Japanese fishing boat, according to the 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters in the Okinawan capital of Naha. They are the same Haijing vessels that made similar moves in the waters on Saturday. China claims the Japanese-administered islands in the East China Sea, collectively called Diaoyu in Chinese. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
02-08-2025
- General
2 China Coast Guard Ships Enter Japanese Waters near Senkakus
News from Japan Society Aug 2, 2025 13:09 (JST) Naha, Okinawa Pref., Aug. 2 (Jiji Press)--Two Chinese coast guard ships entered Japanese waters off the Senkaku Islands in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, the southernmost prefecture, on Saturday. The Japan Coast Guard warned the two Haijing ships to leave the waters, after securing the safety of a Japanese fishing vessel they attempted to approach. The two ships entered the waters near Uotsuri Island in the Senkaku chain around 12:50 a.m., according to the JCG's 11th regional headquarters based in Naha, the capital of Okinawa. A similar intrusion by Chinese Haijing ships occurred near a different island in the Senkaku chain July 9. The ships left Japanese waters July 11. The Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea are claimed by China, where they are called Diaoyu. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
Japan Times
25-07-2025
- Politics
- Japan Times
Japanese fighter jets scramble 157 times in April-June period
Self-Defense Forces fighter jets scrambled 157 times for possible airspace incursions in the April-June period, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. The scrambles were mostly in response to Chinese and Russian aircraft. The number of scrambles against Russian aircraft was the second lowest since fiscal 2013, but the ministry still considers the figure high. The number of scrambles against Chinese aircraft rose by 17 from a year before to 122, accounting for some 78% of the total, according to the ministry. There were 32 scrambles against Russian aircraft, down by 20. In May, a Chinese helicopter intruded into Japanese airspace after taking off from a coast guard ship that entered Japanese waters off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture. The Japanese-administered islands in the East China Sea are claimed by China. Over 1,300 takeoffs and landings by fighter jets and others on Chinese aircraft carriers advancing to the Pacific Ocean from the East China Sea were confirmed.
24-07-2025
- Politics
Japan Fighter Jets Scramble 157 Times in April-June
News from Japan Jul 24, 2025 21:25 (JST) Tokyo, July 24 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Self-Defense Forces fighter jets scrambled 157 times for possible airspace incursions in April-June, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. The scrambles were mostly in response to Chinese and Russian aircraft. The number of scrambles against Russian aircraft was the second lowest since fiscal 2013, but the ministry still considers the figure high. The number of scrambles against Chinese aircraft rose by 17 from a year before to 122, accounting for some 78 pct of the total, according to the ministry. There were 32 scrambles against Russian aircraft, down by 20. In May, a Chinese helicopter intruded into Japanese airspace after taking off from a coast guard ship that entered Japanese waters off the Senkaku Islands in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa. The Japanese-administered islands in the East China Sea are claimed by China. Over 1,300 takeoffs and landings by fighter jets and others on Chinese aircraft carriers advancing to the Pacific Ocean from the East China Sea were confirmed. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
Roya News
15-07-2025
- Politics
- Roya News
Japan says China's military activities could 'seriously impact' its security
Japan said Tuesday that China's intensifying military activities could "seriously impact" its security, citing the first confirmed incursion by a Chinese military aircraft into its airspace in an annual threat assessment. The defence ministry said in its white paper that China was ramping up its activities in the entire region surrounding Japan. A Chinese military aircraft entered Japan's airspace in August last year, it said. Then in September, a Chinese aircraft carrier and two other naval ships sailed between two Japanese islands near Taiwan. Beijing's military "created a situation that could seriously impact Japan's security", the paper said. It repeated its comment from last year's paper that China's military ambitions pose "an unprecedented and (the) greatest strategic challenge" to Japan and the world. Beijing responded by saying the paper "hypes up the so-called China threat". "China expresses strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to this and has lodged solemn representations with Japan," China's foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said. Tokyo said last week that Chinese fighter jets flew within 30 metres (100 feet) of a Japanese military patrol aircraft over the East China Sea. Last year, Chinese vessels sailed near the Japanese-administered Senkaku islands -- known as the Diaoyu in China -- a record 355 times, according to Tokyo. And last month Japan said that two Chinese aircraft carriers sailed in the Pacific simultaneously for the first time, including in Japan's economic waters. China called it "routine training". Beijing has also conducted joint drills with Russia which are "clearly intended as a demonstration of force against Japan", the paper said. It repeated that North Korea's activities pose a "more grave and imminent threat to Japan's national security than ever before". The white paper was approved by the cabinet of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday. Japan boosts defence spending Japan is in a multi-year process of increasing its defence spending. It is bolstering its military ties with Washington -- and other regional US allies -- to make US and Japanese forces nimbler in response to threats such as a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. The Pentagon is pressing Japan and Australia to make clear what role they would play if the United States and China went to war over Taiwan, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. Elbridge Colby, US under-secretary of defence for policy, has been pushing the issue in meetings with Japanese and Australian defence officials in recent months, the FT said. Colby said that President Donald Trump's "common sense agenda" included "urging allies to step up their defense spending and other efforts related to our collective defense". "Of course, some among our allies might not welcome frank conversations," Colby wrote on X.
