Japan, Russia to run naval rescue exercises as planned (original) (raw)

September 15, 2014 02:00 JST

TOKYO -- Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Russian navy are expected to conduct joint search-and-rescue exercises off the coast of Vladivostok as early as late this month.

These will mark the first joint exercises between Japan's Self-Defense Forces and the Russian military since Russia annexed Crimea in southern Ukraine this March.