Tokyo’s defense minister said Friday it was “unacceptable” for China to blame Japan for close encounters between their military planes over the Pacific high seas last weekend. Japan says recent Chinese military activities in the Pacific,

Japan has raised a formal diplomatic protest with China after a Chinese J-15 fighter jet made unusually close approaches to a Japanese P-3C patrol aircraft over the Pacific Ocean, reported South China Morning Post. According to Japan’s Defence Ministry, the Chinese jet shadowed its aircraft for 40 minutes on Saturday and 80 minutes on Sunday.

By Kantaro Komiya and Nobuhiro Kubo TOKYO (Reuters) -Chinese fighter jets flew unusually close to Japanese military patrol planes over the weekend, Tokyo said, after two Chinese aircraft carriers were spotted operating simultaneously in the Pacific for the first time.