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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Aircraft intercepted by Japanese military

U.S. officials' assertions that there is an "international norm" against applying ADIZs to aircraft not intending to enter territorial airspace are apparently belied by Japanese practices -- and it is Japanese practices that have inspired China's ADIZ.

http://m.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2013/12/03/395089/Aircraft-intercepted.htm

TAIWAN

Aircraft intercepted by Japanese military

By Joseph Yeh ,The China Post
December 3, 2013,
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan's civilian flights are occasionally intercepted by Japanese military aircraft within the two nations' overlapping air space in the East China Sea, Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA, 民航局) Director-General Jean Shen (沈啟) said yesterday.
Fielding questions during a legislative session, Shen told lawmakers that Taiwan's Flight Information Region (FIR) and Japan's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) narrowly overlap (between 123 and 124 degrees east longitude) in the East China Sea.

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