TOKYO (AFP) - Japan bolstered its military surveillance capabilities in the southern island region of Okinawa over the weekend, reports said, as territorial tensions with China simmer.
The nation's armed forces, called the Self-Defence Forces, launched a squadron of four E-2C early warning planes at its air base in Naha on the main Okinawan island Sunday, the Jiji an
This is the first time such planes have been based on the island. At the inauguration ceremony in Naha, Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera said Japan faced a "dangerous situation" as Ch
"The squadron was newly established to firmly defend our country's territorial land, sea and air," he told reporters afterwards, according to Jiji Press.
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