A five-year-old boy was found dead in a parked car in Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecture, along with his unconscious older brother and father in what police believe was a murder-suicide. According to ...

The request was made after a truck fell into a gaping sinkhole at a busy intersection in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture, on January 28. The request had been in place since that day in relevant 12 ...

Saitama Prefecture. As the search for the truck driver, 74, is facing difficulty, the impact of the accident on the lives of the residents is becoming prolonged. The prefecture is asking nearby ...

The metal mass found inside an underground sewer pipe near the site of a sinkhole in Saitama Prefecture has been identified as the cab of a truck that plunged into the hole created by the incident ...

It could take at least two to three years to repair a sewer rupture found after a road collapsed in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, according to the head of a prefectural panel studying the repairs.

The Saitama Prefecture government said the man could be in the sewage pipe after the truck's cab was located in the pipe some 650 feet away from the sinkhole two weeks after the truck was ...

SAITAMA--Saitama Prefecture became the first in Japan to pass an ordinance that defines leaving children alone at home, even for short periods, as abuse. The revised ordinance passed by a ...

Nine train station neighborhoods in Saitama Prefecture made it to the top 80. In addition to No. 3 Omiya Station, Urawa Station moved up from eighth place last year to fifth; Kawagoe Station was ...

SAITAMA (Kyodo) -- A large sinkhole swallowed a truck Tuesday after appearing at an intersection near Tokyo, with local authorities working round the clock to rescue a trapped man believed to be ...

YASHIO – Tuesday marked two weeks since a truck fell into a sinkhole on a prefectural road in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture. As the search for the truck driver, 74, is facing difficulty, the impact of ...

According to police in Kuki, Saitama Prefecture, the 46-year-old man made an emergency call complaining of stomach pain. When ambulance staff arrived at his home, however, he burst into anger, took ...