Small Japan city tries to keep monkeys on uninhabited island

Monkeys are pictured on Kojima, an uninhabited island where about 100 of the primates live, in Kushima, southwestern Japan, in this photo taken on April 13, 2017. The local government in Miyazaki Prefecture has stationed officials to prevent monkeys walking across to the Kyushu mainland at low tide and damaging agricultural land. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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