Tokyo lodged a diplomatic protest with Moscow after scrambling fighter jets on Wednesday as a suspected Russian helicopter entered Japan's northern airspace at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine.
The United States military continued the operations of its F-16 fighter jets in Japan overruling the advice of Tokyo to ground all the machines, as per reports.
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