Every war Japanese military aviation has fought
The entries to 1945 belong to the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy air services, which ended with Japan’s defeat. The JASDF, founded in 1954 with no direct predecessor organisation, has never fought a war; its entries are scrambles and airlifts. Where a consolidated sortie or loss figure exists in the official record it is given here; where accounts disagree, the range is shown and the disagreement named. Blank cells are blank because no figure could be verified, not because the fighting was small.
From Tsingtao in 1914 to the scrambles over the East China Sea today.
| 対立 | 年 | に対して | 主要航空機 | 出撃 | 航空機が失われた | |
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| Siege of Tsingtaothe first Japanese air operationsImperial Japanese Army and Navy air services | 1914 | ドイツ | Maurice Farman MF.7, Nieuport VI-M, Farman seaplanes | 136 | ||
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Reconnaissance and bombing against the German colony, alongside a British contingent. Japan entered the First World War on the Allied side and besieged the German naval base at Tsingtao. The army sent a provisional air unit of four Maurice Farman MF.7s and one Nieuport, which flew 86 sorties. The navy’s seaplane carrier Wakamiya carried Farman seaplanes that, according to Wikipedia, flew 50 sorties and dropped 200 bombs, among the first air raids launched from a ship. The operation was small, but it gave both services their first combat experience within four years of the first flight in Japan. 結果 The colony surrendered in November 1914. Loss figures and exact dates of the air operations were not confirmed. |
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| Second Sino-Japanese Warincluding the bombing of ChongqingImperial Japanese Army and Navy air services | 1937年～1945年 | Republic of China and United States (from 1941) | Mitsubishi G3M, Mitsubishi Ki-21, Mitsubishi A6M Zeroそしてもう1つ | |||
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Air superiority, close support and strategic bombing of Chinese cities. From 1937 the army and navy air services fought over China and bombed its cities, among them Shanghai and Nanjing. By the end of 1937 the navy alone had 563 land-based and 332 carrier aircraft. The longest campaign was against Chongqing, the wartime capital: 268 raids between 18 February 1938 and 19 December 1944, flown by both services with G3M and Ki-21 bombers. Wikipedia describes the casualty data as incomplete; one raid in May 1939 killed more than 3,000 people, and on 5 June 1941 about 4,000 suffocated in a tunnel shelter. The A6M Zero made its combat debut over Chongqing in August 1940. 結果 Merged into the Pacific war; Japan surrendered in 1945. Chinese and Japanese casualty totals for the air campaign were not found in an authoritative source and are not given. |
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| Battles of Khalkhin Golthe Nomonhan IncidentImperial Japanese Army Air Service | 1939 | Soviet Union and Mongolian People’s Republic | Nakajima Ki-27, Mitsubishi Ki-21 | 162 | ||
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Fighter and bomber operations against Soviet and Mongolian forces. From 11 May to 16 September 1939 the army air service fought a sustained air campaign over the border river Khalkhin Gol. The losses on both sides, as tabulated by Wikipedia from post-war research, were heavy: 162 Japanese aircraft lost in combat against 250 Soviet aircraft lost in all. 結果 Soviet and Mongolian victory; ceasefire 16 September 1939. Loss figures come from Wikipedia; primary Japanese and Soviet records were not checked. The aircraft types listed are indicative.
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| Pacific Warthe Second World War in Asia and the PacificImperial Japanese Army and Navy air services | 1941年～1945年 | United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Netherlands, China and Soviet Union (August 1945) | Mitsubishi A6M Zero, Nakajima Ki-43, Mitsubishi G4Mさらに2人 | |||
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Carrier strikes, land-based bombing, air defence of Japan and, from October 1944, suicide attacks. The navy’s carrier force opened the war at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, destroying more than 188 American aircraft for the loss of 29. Three days later G4M and G3M bombers sank HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse. At Midway on 4–7 June 1942 the navy lost four fleet carriers, 248 aircraft and 3,057 men. The loss of trained aircrew was never made good. On 25 October 1944, at Leyte Gulf, the first organised kamikaze mission flew; about 3,800 pilots died in such attacks. Estimates of the ships they sank range from 34 (US Air Force) and 47 (the researcher Bill Gordon) to the 81 claimed by Japanese wartime propaganda, and US sources give about 4,900 US sailors killed. In August 1945 the army air service had 676,863 members. 結果 Japan surrendered in August 1945 and both air services ceased to exist. Casualty figures are attributed as the sources give them and are not complete totals; Allied civilian and military deaths caused by Japanese air attacks are not totalled here.
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| Air defence scrambles and airspace violationsincluding the Belenko landing of 1976航空自衛隊 | 1958年～ | F-86F, F-104J, F-4EJさらに3人 | 595 | |||
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Scrambling fighters against unidentified aircraft approaching Japanese airspace. Scramble records begin in 1958. The worst failure came on 6 September 1976, when Viktor Belenko flew a MiG-25 at low level to Hakodate: ground radar lost him and the F-4EJs scrambled from Chitose could not find him. Japan bought the E-2C in response. Since 2012 most scrambles have been against Chinese aircraft. On 13 December 2012 a Chinese government aircraft entered airspace over the Senkakus. Japan holds that there is no territorial issue there; China claims the islands as the Diaoyu Islands, and Taiwan also claims them. The Joint Staff counted a record 1,168 scrambles in FY2016 and 595 in FY2025. In the Japanese government’s account, a Chinese military aircraft violated Japanese airspace in August 2024. A Russian Il-38 crossed into it three times north of Rebun Island on 23 September 2024, when JASDF fighters fired warning flares for the first time. A Chinese coast guard helicopter entered airspace near Uotsurijima on 3 May 2025, and Chinese carrier J-15s illuminated JASDF F-15s with radar for about 30 minutes in December 2025. 結果 続きます。. All incident descriptions are the Japanese government’s. Chinese and Russian official accounts of the 2024–2025 incidents were not found in the sources checked. Japan’s first warning shots, reported against a Soviet aircraft over Okinawa in 1987, are UNVERIFIED and left out.
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| UN peacekeeping and relief airliftCambodia and Rwanda航空自衛隊 | 1992年～1994年 | C-130H | 0 | |||
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Transport support under the June 1992 UN Peacekeeping Cooperation Law. The UN Peacekeeping Cooperation Law of June 1992 allowed the Self-Defense Forces to join UN missions for the first time. The JASDF supported the UN mission in Cambodia (UNTAC) in the early 1990s and took part in the Rwanda refugee relief operation of 1994. These were logistic missions without combat. 結果 完了しました。. Flight numbers, dates and aircraft counts were not confirmed on official pages. |
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| Iraq reconstruction airliftJapanese Iraq Reconstruction and Support Group航空自衛隊 | 2004年～2008年 | C-130H | 0 | |||
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C-130H transport of supplies and personnel between Kuwait and Iraq. A JASDF advance team assessed the situation in late December 2003, and C-130H flights between Kuwait and Iraq began in March 2004 under special legislation. The mandate was extended several times. By 26 November 2008 the aircraft had carried 671.1 tonnes of supplies, and the last JASDF personnel left Kuwait on 18 December 2008. 結果 Ended; the last JASDF personnel left Kuwait on 18 December 2008. |
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| Evacuation from Kabul2021 Kabul airlift航空自衛隊 | 2021 | C-2, C-130H | 0 | |||
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Evacuation of Japanese nationals and Afghan staff after the fall of Kabul. A JASDF C-2 reached Kabul on 25 August 2021 but returned to Islamabad the same day because the evacuees had not reached the airport. On 27 August C-130s flew out one Japanese national, 14 Afghans at the request of the United States, and all Self-Defense Forces personnel., and Wikipedia notes that many local embassy employees who wished to leave were left behind. 結果 One Japanese national and 14 Afghans flown out; many local embassy staff who wished to leave were left behind. |
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- 統合幕僚監部：2025年度（令和7年度）緊急発進実施状況について（2026年4月17日）2025年度の緊急発進回数は595回（中国366回、ロシア214回）、2024年度は704回（中国464回、ロシア237回）。ピークは2016年度の1,168回。防空部隊別では、南西部348回、北部165回、西部46回、中部36回。2025年5月3日、中国沿岸警備隊ヘリコプターによる領空侵犯。2025年12月、J-15によるF-15へのレーダー照射。2025年12月、中露爆撃機による飛行。.
- Joint Staff press release listIndex of scramble statistics and foreign military activity releases, 2025–2026.
- Defense of Japan 2026, Digest (English)Planned reorganisation into a Japan Aerospace (Air and Space) Self-Defense Force; GIGO established December 2024 and Edgewing June 2025; FY2025 scrambles 595; December 2025 radar illumination for about 30 minutes; FY2026 spending above 9 trillion yen; Space Operations Wing at Fuchu and Hofu-kita.
- Defense of Japan 2025, Digest (English)Chinese military aircraft airspace violation in August 2024; Russian Il-38 violated airspace north of Rebun Island three times on 23 September 2024 and the ASDF used flares as a warning for the first time; FY2024 scrambles 704 (China 464, Russia 237); first F-35B landing on JS Kaga in October 2024.
数値は2026年9月30日に検証済みです。. Back to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.