Window falls from U.S. military chopper onto Okinawa school grounds

Window falls from U.S. military chopper onto Okinawa school grounds

Tsutomu Kinjo (center L), head of the Komeito party's Okinawa branch, hands a letter of protest to Koichiro Nakajima, head of the Defense Ministry's Okinawa bureau, in the southwestern Japanese prefecture town of Kadena on Dec. 14, 2017. The protest letter was in response to the previous day's accident in which a metal-framed window, weighing almost 8 kilograms, fell from a U.S. military CH-53E chopper onto the sports ground of an elementary school in Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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