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MID#4480
Dispute Number: 4480
Date(s): February 9, 2008
Participants: 365 Russia/740 Japan
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: A Russian bomber crossed into Japanese airspace. Japanese fighters
scrambled to the area.
MID#4484
Dispute Number: 4484
Date(s): January 30, 2009
Participants: 365 Russia/740 Japan
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: A Russian helicopter attacked two Japanese fishing boats in waters near
the Kuril Islands.
710 CHINA/740 JAPAN
MID#4061
Dispute Number: 4061
Date(s): August 21, 1995
Participants: 710 China/740 Japan
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: China challenged Japanese airspace near the Senkaku Islands. Japan
scrambled two fighters in response.
MID#4062
Dispute Number: 4062
Date(s): July 1996 to September 9, 1996
Participants: 710 China/740 Japan
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: A right-wing Japanese nationalist group built a lighthouse on the disputed
Senkaku Islands (also known as Diaoyu Island and Tiaoyutai Islands) sometime
before July 20, 1996. China sent two submarines to stake their claim to the islands.
Japan sent patrol boats and planes to the area two months later. Both China and Japan
then passed domestic laws confirming their sovereignty over the islands, but there was
also general agreement that each would do all it could not to escalate their claims.