Japan's coast guard said it was searching Thursday for an army helicopter carrying 10 crew members that went missing off a southern Japanese island. The coast guard said it received information that a Ground Self-Defense Force UH-60JA Black Hawk helicopter disappeared from radar on a mission Thursday evening in an area north of Miyako island.
Japan's Kyodo News agency said coast guard ships had found traces of oil and debris that could be related to the missing helicopter, but officials declined to confirm the report. The coast guard said four patrol ships were participating in the search.
Japan's national public broadcaster NHK said a senior commander from the country's self defense force, 6th Division Chief Yuichi Sakamoto, had been among those on board the Black Hawk. black hello kitty shirt
The disappearance near the Japanese island came as the country works to significantly bolster its defenses in response to China's increasingly assertive military activity in the regional seas, where tension is also rising around Taiwan.
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