INSIDE JAPAN from our view

2005/11/9

For Constitution?

@ 07:12 PM (33 months, 25 days ago)

Japan-China airspace tension grows  TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japanese fighter jets have been scrambled 30 times to turn away Chinese planes approaching Japan's airspace in the last six months, more than twice the 13 times in the same period last year, officials have said. The increased defensive posture reflects the growing tensions between Japan and China, which are squabbling over interpretations of their wartime past, undersea gas deposits, and ownership of East China Sea islands.

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