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 ...

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.

The 74-year-old man had stopped near an intersection in Saitama Prefecture when the sinkhole suddenly opened ... In response to the incident, Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport ...

A sinkhole opened up in the middle of an intersection in Japan on Tuesday and, unfortunately, a truck and its 74-year-old driver were swallowed during the dramatic incident.

Five families living in the vicinity of a sinkhole in Japan have been told to evacuate as the crater continued to expand, days after swallowing a truck along with its driver. The sinkhole in ...

TOKYO -- Efforts to rescue a 74-year-old truck driver are continuing on Friday, more than three days after a huge sinkhole trapped a truck north of Tokyo, as the widely televised incident ...

Japan Tries to Rescue Man Stuck in Sinkhole. Here's What's Going On. TOKYO (AP) — A truck that fell into a sinkhole that suddenly opened on a road near Tokyo has captured national attention as ...

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 ...

There have been several incidents involving sinkholes in Japan in recent years. In September, a sinkhole in the city of Hiroshima appeared after an underground water pipe burst and the road had ...