Four RAF Typhoon jets are to join the first ever UK–Japan Joint Fighter Exercise, the British Embassy Tokyo said in a 16 September press release.
The news came as General Yoshiyuki Sugiyama, chief of staff of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), announced that the exercise would be held from mid-October to early November at the JASDF’s Misawa Air Base.
The British and Japanese foreign and defence ministers agreed the exercise in January, and it represents the first time that Japan has hosted an exercise with a country other than the US.