TOKYO - Japan scrambled fighter jets against aircraft approaching its airspace 725 times in fiscal 2020, down 222 times from a year earlier, the Defense Ministry said Friday, as the country seeks to shift its policy from reactively mobilizing planes to proactive surveillance.
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