The sinkhole that suddenly opened on a road near Tokyo has captured national attention as attempts to rescue the elderly ...

Japanese authorities have asked hundreds of residents near Tokyo to evacuate as a sinkhole at an intersection grew to more than 40 meters wide, hampering rescuers racing to reach an elderly truck ...

A truck cabin that was swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan two weeks ago has been located in a nearby ... opened at a road ...

Emergency workers in Yashio city outside Tokyo rushed to the scene on Tuesday ... a massive sinkhole appeared on a five-lane street in Hakata, Japan. That sinkhole caused blackouts and traffic ...

Japanese emergency services struggled for hours on Tuesday to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a massive sinkhole near Tokyo. Authorities in Yashio City, Saitama, received calls ...

Rescue workers in Japan are trying to pull out a truck driver from a sinkhole that appeared on Tuesday and has since widened. The sinkhole appeared in Yashio city in Saitama prefecture, near the ...

A truck driver has spent more than 24 hours trapped under a Japan sinkhole that swallowed his vehicle in the greater Tokyo ...

Reports of suspicious phone calls and home visits by scammers posing as government officials have climbed since the sinkhole ...

A truck cab that fell into a widening sinkhole in Yashio, Japan, late last month has been found. Officials believe the body ...

Takashi Oguchi, a geographer from the University of Tokyo, said sinkholes are rare in Japan, where most roads are built on unconsolidated fluvial and marine sediments. But he warned that when a ...

A truck driver has spent more than 24 hours trapped under a sinkhole in Japan that swallowed his vehicle in the greater Tokyo area, national officials confirmed. The crater formed at a busy ...

TOKYO -- An oval-shaped pit suddenly formed on a busy road in Yashio, Japan, on Tuesday, taking down a truck and trapping the driver inside. Emergency crews battled unstable ground and debris.