The Japan joined the United States, Australia and the Philippines for joint naval and air drills in the disputed South China Sea, as China announced its own exercises in the strategic waterway. The statement said that the the joint exercise involved naval vessels and aircraft and had taken place in an area within the Philippine’s exclusive economic zone in the strategic waterway. The drills which included the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Akebono destroyer. included a communication exercise, division tactics and a photo exercise.

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