TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s defence ministry said on Friday it scrambled fighter jets after two Russian IL-38 information-gathering aircraft were spotted flying back and forth between the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea.
The Russian air force activity in an area also near South Korea and China came a day after Japan spotted Russian and Chinese naval ships crossing waters between the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa and Miyako.
(This story has been refiled to correct the grammar in the headline and paragraph 1)
(Reporting by Satoshi Sugiyama; Writing by Kantaro Komiya; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
