International Business Times: Warning Shots May Be Used To Thwart Airspace Incursions Near Disputed Islands: Japan

International Business Times

Warning Shots May Be Used To Thwart Airspace Incursions Near Disputed Islands: Japan Jan 20th 2013, 10:47 Japanese officials have said warning shots would be fired at foreign aircrafts violating its airspace, after an incident last week saw Beijing and Tokyo scramble fighter planes over airspace incursions near a set of hotly contested islands in the East China Sea. Officials in Tokyo made the comments, as reported by the Associated Press, following an incident last week when the Chinese government sent a civilian surveillance plane to fly near the disputed islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.

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