In 2016, a massive sinkhole appeared on a five-lane street in Hakata, Japan. That sinkhole caused blackouts and traffic delays but crews worked around the clock to fix the gaping hole in the busy ...

Witnesses said the road sunk just before the truck passed, Japan Today reported, citing the police. The spokesman said that another sinkhole has since opened up nearby, and residents within a 650 ...

But he warned that when a large underground waterpipe ruptures, leaked water could wash away these sediments, creating a sinkhole. Much of Japan’s public infrastructure was built between the ...

There’s also been a renewed debate about Japan’s aging infrastructure. Just after the sinkhole appeared in Yashio City, just northeast of Tokyo, on Tuesday morning a 3-ton truck fell into it.

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 ...

Rescuers are racing to save a man swallowed by a massive sinkhole in Japan while driving a truck through an intersection, with a second sinkhole opening up and residents ordered to evacuate amid ...

TOKYO — The body of a truck driver was recovered Friday three months after his vehicle fell into a sinkhole that suddenly ... the aging infrastructure in Japan, where most of its main public ...

There’s also been a renewed debate about Japan’s aging infrastructure. Just after the sinkhole appeared in Yashio City, just northeast of Tokyo, on Tuesday morning a 3-ton truck fell into it.

A 74-year-old truck driver remains trapped in a sinkhole that opened earlier this week in Yashio, Japan. The sinkhole opened just before 10 a.m. local time Tuesday, according to the Yomiuri ...

By River Akira Davis and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo Emergency workers are struggling to rescue a truck driver who was swallowed by a sinkhole ... to the incident, Japan’s Ministry of ...

TOKYO -- An oval-shaped pit suddenly formed on a busy road in Yashio, Japan, on Tuesday ... driver after his vehicle was swallowed up by a sinkhole at a prefectural road intersection, in the ...