U.S. military airplane with eight aboard crashes into ocean near Japan

TOKYO — A U.S. military Osprey aircraft crashed into the sea near Yakushima island in southern Japan with eight people on board, the Japanese Coast Guard said Wednesday. Their condition was not immediately known.

The Coast Guard received an emergency call around 2:45 p.m. reporting the crash off the coast of Yakushima, a small, remote island in the Kagoshima prefecture, in the southernmost part of Japan.