By Kantaro Komiya and Nobuhiro Kubo TOKYO (Reuters) -Chinese fighter jets flew unusually close to Japanese military patrol planes over the weekend, Tokyo said, after two Chinese aircraft carriers were spotted operating simultaneously in the Pacific for the first time.

TOKYO/BEIJING--Chinese fighter jets flew unusually close to Japanese patrol planes over the Pacific last weekend, Tokyo said, after it spotted two Chinese aircraft carriers simultaneously deployed in the waters for the first time.

Incident comes a day after Japan said it sighted 2 Chinese carriers simultaneously sailing in western Pacific - Anadolu Ajansı