Regarding the accident during which the Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter disappeared, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan requested that the exercise of the Self-Defense Force plane at the moment was “reconnaissance related to the movement of the Chinese navy,” however the Ministry of Defense responded. He defined that the time zone was distant from the actions of the Chinese navy, and that there is no such thing as a reference to the accident right now.
At the House of Councilors Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense on the eleventh, concerning the accident during which a Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter disappeared within the afternoon of April 6 close to Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture, a Chinese Navy intelligence-gathering ship was dispatched to the primary island of Okinawa on the identical day. The relationship with the motion southward within the sea space between Miyakojima was taken up.