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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The future F-35A jet squadron on Hokkaido will be Japan's fifth unit operating the stealth aircraft, the defense ministry ...

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, ...

TOKYO/MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Japan has scrambled jets to monitor Russian and Chinese air forces conducting joint patrols around the country, the Japanese defence ministry said late Tuesday, amid ...

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 ...

No immediate threat to Polish airspace was reported in this latest incident, according to officials. However, with the war in Ukraine ongoing and Russia maintaining its aerial campaign, the risk of ...

Crude oil and natural gas from overseas, including Russia, are important for Japan’s energy security, the country’s economy ministry told Reuters this week, noting the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project ...

Beijing disputed the accusation, the latest flare-up in a festering dispute between the two countries. By Javier C. Hernández Reporting from Tokyo Japan on Sunday accused China of training military ...