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Japan scrambles fighter jets that shoot flares to warn Russian spy plane to leave airspace

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Japan says it used flares to warn a Russian aircraft to leave northern Japanese airspace.

The Russian Il-38 plane breached Japan 's airspace above Rebun Island , just off the coast of the country's northernmost main island of Hokkaido .

Japan scrambled an undisclosed number of F-15 and F-35 fighter jets, which used flares for the first time.

Japan and Russia are in a territorial dispute over a group of Russian -held islands, which the former Soviet Union seized from Japan at the end of WWII .

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