A sinkhole accident in Yashio is believed to have been caused by damage to an underground sewage pipe. Read more at ...

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 ...

T OKYO (AP) — A truck that fell into a sinkhole that suddenly opened on a road near Tokyo has captured national attention as attempts to rescue the elderly driver drag on. Residents near the ...

The government plans to conduct a survey on key sewage pipes across Japan in response to the road collapse that ...

Five households in the immediate vicinity of a massive, ever-widening sinkhole near Tokyo were urged to evacuate on Sunday, with efforts to rescue a man stuck inside reportedly halted. A 74-year ...

Firefighters said they ended Sunday their search inside a sinkhole near Tokyo for a man whose truck was swallowed by it nearly two weeks ago, with attention set to switch to an underground sewage pipe ...

Rescue operations continued early Wednesday morning, after a truck fell into a sinkhole at a busy intersection near Tokyo. The truck's driver remains trapped and has become unresponsive.

When the sinkhole developed on the morning of Jan ... land ministry and now an associate professor at the University of Tokyo. “And hydrogen sulfide leads to corrosion,” he said.

TOKYO (AP) — A truck that fell into a sinkhole that suddenly opened on a road near Tokyo has captured national attention as attempts to rescue the elderly driver drag on.