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 ...

U.S. nuclear-capable strategic bombers flew over the Sea of Japan with Japanese fighter jets on Wednesday, Tokyo’s defense ministry announced Thursday. Following Chinese and Russian military exercises ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - 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 ...

U.S. nuclear-capable bombers flew over the East Sea alongside Japanese fighter jets on Wednesday, Tokyo said, in a show of force following Chinese and Russian drills in the skies and seas around U.S.

Russia has deployed TU-95 nuclear-capable bombers over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea, with Japan responding by scrambling fighter jets to monitor the situation. The Russian bombers, escorted ...

WSJ Tokyo Bureau Chief Jason Douglas explains how Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s summit with President Trump secured a new ‘golden age’ for the U.S.-Japanese alliance. Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters ...

Beijing escalated its war of words with Tokyo after Japan said Chinese fighter jets aimed a fire-control radar at Japanese F-15s flying near Okinawa, an action Tokyo called "dangerous" and "extremely ...

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, ...