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 ...

Thirty people were evacuated and at least one garden was swallowed by a sinkhole that appeared in Godstone, a village in ...

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

Japan drones find truck cabin swallowed by sinkhole with ‘person inside’ - A lorry was swallowed at an intersection near ...

Rescuers have been struggling to find the 74-year-old driver since the truck plunged into a chasm that appeared near Tokyo ...

The government of Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, says searchers have found what seems to be the cab of the truck that ...

Jan. 28 (UPI) --Japanese emergency crews worked through Tuesday to free a man driving a dump truck that fell through a large sinkhole that opened up at an intersection in Yashio, near Tokyo.

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 ...