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Japan scrambles jets after Chinese plane breaches airspace

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The aircraft briefly flew over the Danjo Islands between 11.29am and 11.31am.

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The Chinese aircraft was identified as a Y-9 reconnaissance plane. (Wikimedia Commons pic)

TOKYO:
Japan’s defence ministry said it had scrambled jets against a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft that had briefly breached its airspace this morning.

The aircraft was identified as a Y-9 reconnaissance plane that flew over the Danjo Islands to the west of the southern island of Kyushu between around 11.29am and 11.31am.

The ministry said it was the first time a Chinese military aircraft had breached Japan’s airspace, and that the government had lodged a strong protest against Beijing through diplomatic channels.

Separately, the Japanese foreign ministry said vice-foreign minister Masataka Okano had summoned a senior official at the Chinese embassy in Tokyo to lodge a protest against the incursion and to strongly demand the prevention of such breaches.

Chinese foreign ministry officials were not immediately available for comment.

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