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After the United States shot down the suspected Chinese spy balloon, the Japanese defense official turned over the archives, saying that Japan had found suspected scout gas balls in the past, and said that the amendment regulations would be considered to allow the Self -Defense Force to shoot down suspicious flying objects.

According to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), in accordance with the existing defense regulations, the Japanese Self -Defense Force can only shoot down the aircraft that violates the airspace.To this end, the defense official is considering the amendment regulations.

The official defense official confirmed that at least three flying objects were infringed and the air violations were infringed, and it was inferred that this was a "reconnaissance balloon" flying from China.

It refers to these three flight objects in November 2019, June 2020, and in September 2021, over Kagoshima, Miyagi and Aomori Prefecture.

Defense officials attended the Liberal Democratic Party Security Survey Council held on Wednesday (February 15).According to Mu Yuan, the director of the association, the official defense official prepared to take new measures to deal with this situation.

He said: "The official defense official is worried that the existence of unknown drones and balloons will affect the safety of civil aviation aircraft."

The president of the association and the former defense ministers Ono Temple said that if you know that this is a Chinese balloon, but it does not express protests, it is a serious problem.

He called on the government to pay attention to this defense loophole and take necessary security measures.

The Secretary -General of Cabinet Matsno Matsuna said: "We will confirm the matter with the Chinese government through diplomatic channels. Moreover, we will strongly ask for this situation not to occur in the future. We must not tolerate foreign scout balloons to infringe Japan.We will continue to work closely with allies to respond to this issue, and collect information and conduct more rigorous alert and surveillance activities. "

According to the Asahi TV, Japanese folk celestial observations have seen balloons floating in the air from time to time from time to time.Three years ago, the balloon was found in Sendai City.But then Kono Kono Taro believed that this had no effect on security.

Analysis pointed out that Japanese officials began to look at this issue seriously after the US high -profile processing of "Chinese balloon".