The ministry said one of the Chinese military's Y-9 intelligence-gathering planes had briefly entered Japanese territory near the Danjo Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture.

The territorial violation by China is the latest in a series of events amplifying tensions between Beijing and Japan.

A Chinese military surveillance plane breached Japanese airspace off the country’s southwestern coast on Monday, marking what Japan’s defense ministry described as the first known incursion by China’s military into its territorial airspace.

According to a ministry official, a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft briefly entered Japanese territory near Nagasaki Prefecture around 11:30 a.m. on Monday. In response, Japan’s Self-Defense Force put fighter jets on high alert and issued a warning to the Chinese aircraft.

While Chinese planes frequently appear in international airspace around Japan, this incident represents the first confirmed entry of a military aircraft into Japan’s territorial airspace.

  • @ForgotAboutDreEnglish
    10•18 days ago

    Not a mistake anyone would make accidentally. They wouldn’t be allowed to fly near hostile territory without being well informed of the risks and consequences. This was a planned and deliberate action, or Chinas airforce is incompetent and can’t be trusted.

    Both are dangerous and shouldn’t be tolerated in your territory.

    • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
      -9•18 days ago

      Not a mistake anyone would make accidentally.

      It’s a routine mistake that happens regularly, particularly when there is a large amount of traffic and a crop of younger personal.

      Both are dangerous and shouldn’t be tolerated in your territory.

      We’ve flipped from “China is being too hostile” to “The US isn’t being hostile enough”.

      But it turns out they’re two sides of the same coin. Americans simply can’t get enough war.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝English
          2•17 days ago

          Don’t you know that all the bad that’s happening in the world, and I mean all of it, not some of it, not a lot of it, but ALL of it is the sole responsibility of the Great Satan?

          And that all bad things are either done by the US, done by a US ally - forced to by the US as all US allies are occupied territories and have no agency - or exists solely in US propaganda, as countries free of US influence can never do bad?

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝English
        2•17 days ago

        It’s a routine mistake that happens regularly

        Lol no, shitty private student pilots with tens of hours of experience don’t break airspace, and I’m not talking about airspace boundaries between states, but about random ones within countries that you can request and get in a week and like 100 EUR.

        Every single flight starts with a briefing on what airspaces you need to avoid, and what measures you will take to avoid them. At least if Chinese jet pilots have half the discipline of a Romanian crop duster.