<span style="color: #222222;">A Japanese woman will be flying through the glass ceiling as she becomes her country's first female fighter pilot. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Japan's military has announced that first Lieutenant Misa Matsushima, 26, will begin duty today having completed her training to fly F-15s. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Japan's air force began recruiting women in 1993 – except as fighter jet and reconnaissance aircraft pilots. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It lifted that final ban in late 2015.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Three other women are currently training to join the elite group of fighter pilots.</span>