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BREAKING NEWS: Japan Scrambles Jets After China Spy Aircraft Fly over East China Sea

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Japan mobilized combat fighters on Sunday for the fourth consecutive day after detecting a Chinese military intelligence-gathering aircraft, announced the Japanese authorities at a time of diplomatic tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.

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The Ministry of Defense's Joint Staff Office announced that on September 5th and 6th, intelligence-gathering aircraft from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) military and the Russian military flew over the vicinity of Japan, prompting Japan Air Self-Defense Force fighter jets to be scrambled.

It has been revealed that the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) scrambled fighter jets in response to Russian and Chinese military aircraft on the 5th. According to the Ministry of Defense, between the morning and afternoon of the 5th, a Russian intelligence-gathering aircraft flew over Japan's Northern Territories, into the Pacific Ocean, and returned to the waters off Miyagi Prefecture. At the same time, a Chinese intelligence-gathering air…

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Kyodo News+ broke the news in Tokyo, Japan on Monday, September 7, 2026.
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