Japan calls Chinese navy plane incursion ‘unacceptable’ menace to security

A Chinese navy plane’s first-ever incursion into Japanese airspace is “totally unacceptable” and is taken into account a menace to Japan’s security, the federal government’s high spokesman mentioned Tuesday, as officers grappled with the rationale and response a day after the incident off Nagasaki Prefecture.

“The violation of our nation’s airspace by Chinese navy plane is just not solely a critical violation of our nation’s sovereignty, but in addition a menace to our security, and we take into account it totally unacceptable,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi advised a information convention.

The Defense Ministry mentioned it had scrambled fighter jets as a Chinese navy Y-9 intelligence-gathering airplane briefly entered Japanese airspace close to the Danjo Islands for a few minutes on Monday morning, from 11:29 a.m. to 11:31 a.m.