Edition: Singapore Indonesia Asia US/UK TOKYO: Japan has ordered military planes to be on standby to evacuate its nationals from Iran and Israel, Tokyo's top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Thursday (Jun 19). "In view of the increasingly tense situation in the Middle East , we have decided to move Self-Defense Forces aircraft to Djibouti," he told reporters. Around 1,000 Japanese nationals are believed to live in Israel, and around 280 in Iran, defence minister Gen Nakatani said,