Russian jets breach Japan airspace

Two Russian fighter jets violated Japanese airspace on February 7 as Tokyo scrambled its own planes in response, reportedly the first such incident in 5 years. The Russian planes were detected off the coast of northernmost Hokkaido island for just over a minute, shortly after Japan’s new prime minister said he wants to find a “mutually acceptable solution” to a decades-old territorial row between the countries. Japan’s foreign ministry lodged a formal protest over the incursion. Soviet forces seized the isles, which stretch out into rich fishing waters off the northern coast of Hokkaido, in the dying days of WWII and drove out Japanese residents.

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