People can visit the flood protection facility in Kasukabe, which safeguards Tokyo and has shafts large enough to fit the ...

Japan’s government has uploaded a free Minecraft map, which features the world’s largest underground flooding diversion facility.

After visitors descend stairs winding 50 meters below ground, they emerge to an otherworldly sight -- a cavernous, dimly lit ...

When nearby rivers flood, the overflow courses through 6.3 km of massive underground ... station in Tokyo, Japan, July 16, 2024. REUTERS/Issei Kato The control switches of a tunnel boring machine ...

Its dramatic pressure-adjusting water tank, known as the "underground shrine," is also popular with both domestic and international visitors. A one-of-a-kind flood ... carried by tunnel to the ...

KUALA SELANGOR: Selangor is mulling flood mitigation proposals involving underground tunnels based on similar models in Japan, says State Infrastructure and Agriculture Committee chairman Izham ...

The nine dead were travelling in three vehicles in the tunnel about 80km west of Tokyo on a highway that links the capital to central Japan. The tunnel opened in 1977 and is one of many in the ...

According to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Japan is “on the verge of not ... and conveyor belts to transport goods through extensive underground tunnel networks. The ULS project was ...

Japan is reported to be considering the construction of a 31km tunnel that would cost an estimated US$7 billion. The Tsugaru Strait Tunnel Project would be an underground tunnel structure connecting ...