{"id":18937,"date":"2013-02-07T09:39:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18937"},"modified":"2018-01-15T17:15:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T22:15:26","slug":"japan-scrambles-fighters-after-two-russian-aircraft-intrude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/japan-scrambles-fighters-after-two-russian-aircraft-intrude\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan scrambles fighters after two Russian aircraft intrude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s military forces are getting quite a workout these days, with the standoff with China over the Senkaku Islands and now the Russians are getting aggressive about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-21364559#TWEET589256\" target=\"_blank\">probing Japanese airspace<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two Russian fighter jets have violated Japanese airspace, prompting Tokyo to scramble its own aircraft, reports say.<\/p>\n<p>Japan lodged a protest after the planes were detected off the northern island of Hokkaido for just over a minute.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened after Japanese PM Shinzo Abe said he was seeking a solution to a territorial dispute with Russia over a Pacific island chain.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s military denied the incursion, saying the jets were making routine flights near the disputed islands.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Abe was speaking on the anniversary of an 1855 treaty which Japan says supports its claims to the islands.<\/p>\n<p>The four islands &mdash; which Russia calls the Southern Kurils and Japan calls the Northern Territories &mdash; are the subject of a 60-year-old dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the dispute, the two nations have not yet signed a peace treaty to end World War II. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s military forces are getting quite a workout these days, with the standoff with China over the Senkaku Islands and now the Russians are getting aggressive about probing Japanese airspace: Two Russian fighter jets have violated Japanese airspace, prompting Tokyo to scramble its own aircraft, reports say. Japan lodged a protest after the planes were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24,5,683,1119,230],"tags":[145,316,432],"class_list":["post-18937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-japan","category-military","category-pacific","category-russia","category-ww2","tag-airforce","tag-borders","tag-diplomacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Vr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18938,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18937\/revisions\/18938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}