Japan regularly intercepts Russian forces near its territorial waters and airspace.

Japan fighter aircraft were scrambled 448 times in the last nine months – a 14 percent decrease from the same timeframe last ...

Before dawn on a December morning in 2025, Japanese air defenses tracked an unusual formation: Russian and Chinese long-range bombers flying a deliberate loop around the country’s main islands without ...

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 ...