US military chopper makes emergency landing in Japan

TOKYO: An American military helicopter made an emergency landing on a remote Japanese island Tuesday, police and news reports said, the latest in a series of accidents that have fuelled local opposition to US forces based on Okinawa.There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage from the landing at a heliport in Tonaki, a tiny island in Okinawa prefecture some 60 kilometres (37 miles) west of the main island, a police spokesman told AFP. There was no immediate comment from the US military. This month US Secretary of Defense James Mattis apologised to Japanese counterpart Itsunori Onodera after a string of accidents on the southern Japanese island, where more than half the 47,000 American troops in Japan are stationed.