Japan has scrambled jets to monitor Russian and Chinese air forces conducting joint patrols around the country, the Japanese defense ministry said late Tuesday, amid rising tensions between Tokyo and ...

Chinese and Russian warplanes flew around Japan’s southern islands, following a course taken days earlier by China’s first aircraft carrier, prompting Tokyo to scramble fighters amid rising military ...

Two Russian strategic bombers Tu-95 that flew down from the airspace east of the Korean Peninsula joined a pair of Chinese H-6 bombers over the East China Sea for a joint flight down to the Pacific ...

Two Russian Tu-95 nuclear-capable strategic bombers flew from the Sea of Japan toward the East China Sea to meet two Chinese H-6 bombers and carry out a "long-distance joint flight" over the Pacific, ...

A Russian Tu-95 bomber and a Chinese J-16 spotted flying between Okinawa and Miyako Island Dec. 9, 2025. Japan’s Joint Staff Office photo Russian and Chinese bombers conducted a joint patrol Tuesday, ...

Japanese fighter jets did not aim radar at Chinese jets during Saturday's close encounter incidents, Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on Wednesday, in response to a Chinese media report ...

TOKYO/WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - U.S. nuclear-capable bombers flew over the Sea of Japan alongside Japanese fighter jets on Wednesday, Tokyo said, in a show of force following Chinese and Russian ...