Japan scrambled its air force jets nearly 700 times in the past 12 months in response to suspected airspace violations by mostly Russian and Chinese military aircraft, its Defense Ministry said last month.A Newsweek map, using the Japanese government's geospatial data, illustrates the approximate flight paths of dozens of notable sorties, which were logged and reported in the fiscal year 2023—March 31 to April 1—by the Joint Staff of Japan's Self-Defense Forces.
The Chinese and Russian defense ministries did not respond to multiple written requests for comment before publication.Japan's Joint Staff statistics showed nearly 70 percent of its scrambles were ordered from bases responsible for the country's southwestern airspace. The pattern—also visible on Newsweek's graphic—appears to reflect the increasing frequency with which Chinese forces were flying long-range sorties through the so-called first island chain into the Western Pacific.
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