{"id":62179,"date":"2026-07-22T08:11:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/62179\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:11:58","slug":"china-russia-conducted-firing-drill-in-japans-economic-waters-tokyo-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/62179\/","title":{"rendered":"China, Russia Conducted Firing Drill in Japan\u2019s Economic Waters: Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Islam Times – Chinese and Russian naval forces conducted a joint live-firing exercise using machine guns within Japan\u2019s exclusive economic zone, a sign of their deepening military cooperation, Tokyo said Tuesday.The incident on Sunday was the first time that Japan\u2019s defense ministry has spotted a live-fire drill by China within its EEZ and disclosed it, according to Japanese media, AFP reported.<\/p>\n

Tokyo sees the drill as \u201cpart of a move by the two militaries toward strengthening their cooperation,\u201d Japan\u2019s top government spokesman Minoru Kihara said at a Tuesday briefing.<\/p>\n

Relations between Japan and China have worsened since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi angered Beijing in November with comments about Taiwan.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the Chinese navy\u2019s Luyang III-class missile destroyer was seen conducting the exercise 180 kilometers (110 miles) southwest of the Okinotori Island, Japan\u2019s southernmost territory, alongside a Russian naval vessel, officials said.<\/p>\n

A fleet comprising three Chinese ships and a Russian navy frigate was first sighted at around 2:00 am (1700 GMT Saturday) 330 kilometers southwest of the island, heading northeast.<\/p>\n

Japan told Beijing via diplomatic channels that the drill \u201ccould have endangered the navigation of nearby ships,\u201d according to Kihara.<\/p>\n

Chinese and Russian air forces jointly flew bombers over waters around Japan last month, while their navies also conducted a joint exercise this month.<\/p>\n

The latest live-firing drill prompted Tokyo to mobilize by air and sea to surveil and monitor the situation, Kihara said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to monitor with concern the behaviors by Chinese and Russian vessels in the waters around our country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Ships from Japan\u2019s and China\u2019s coast guards faced off near disputed islands this month, with each claiming they drove out the other\u2019s vessels that had intruded into their territorial waters.<\/p>\n

The incident took place near uninhabited islands claimed as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China, which sit between Taiwan and Okinawa and have caused diplomatic tensions for decades.<\/p>\n

Takaichi said in November that Tokyo could intervene militarily in any attack on self-ruled Taiwan, drawing Beijing\u2019s ire.<\/p>\n

Under Takaichi, Japan has also accelerated its pivot toward a more proactive defense policy, further shaking off \u2014 with US encouragement \u2014 a pacifist outlook in place since the end of World War II. \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times – Chinese and Russian naval forces conducted a joint live-firing exercise using machine guns within Japan\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6884,87,12,3673,40290,8237,34015,40292,2487,35955,6867,40291,6888,10027,96,8129,8,410,17,40294,3625,15260,3026,35786,413,636,39959,39567,4397,31497,8130,52,4262,40295,40293,40296,40297],"class_list":["post-62179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-a","tag-and","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-conducted","tag-cooperation","tag-deepening","tag-drill","tag-economic","tag-exclusive","tag-exercise","tag-firing","tag-forces","tag-guns","tag-in","tag-islam","tag-japan","tag-japans","tag-japanese","tag-joint","tag-live","tag-machine","tag-military","tag-naval","tag-of","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-said","tag-sign","tag-their","tag-times","tag-tokyo","tag-tuesday","tag-using","tag-waters","tag-within","tag-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}