TOKYO: Japanese and US forces have conducted a joint fighter jet flight over the Sea of Japan, Japan's Defense Ministry said Thursday, in an apparent response to a...
TOKYO: Japanese and US forces have conducted a joint fighter jet flight over the Sea of Japan, Japan's Defense Ministry said Thursday, in an apparent response to a Russia-China joint bomber flight while US President Joe Biden was in Tokyo.The Japan-US joint flight on Wednesday was meant to 'confirm combined capabilities of the Japanese SDF and the US forces and to further strengthen the Japan-US alliance,' the Joint Staff of the Japanese Self-Defense Force said in a statement.
Chinese and Russian strategic bombers conducted joint flights near Japan on Tuesday, Japan's Defense Ministry said, while Biden was meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and their counterparts from India and Australia for the Quad, an Indo-Pacific security and economic coalition meant as a counterweight to China's growing influence in the region.