The sinkhole that suddenly opened on a road near Tokyo has captured national attention as attempts to rescue the elderly ...

Takashi Oguchi, a geographer from the University of Tokyo, said sinkholes are rare in Japan, where most roads are built on unconsolidated fluvial and marine sediments. But he warned that when a ...

Rescuers have been struggling to find the 74-year-old driver since the truck plunged into a chasm that appeared near Tokyo ...

Thirty people were evacuated and at least one garden was swallowed by a sinkhole that appeared in Godstone, a village in ...

A truck driver has spent more than 24 hours trapped under a Japan sinkhole that swallowed his vehicle in the greater Tokyo ...

The government of Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, says searchers have found what seems to be the cab of the truck that ...

Jan. 28 (UPI) --Japanese emergency crews worked through Tuesday to free a man driving a dump truck that fell through a large sinkhole that opened up at an intersection in Yashio, near Tokyo.

A truck driver has spent more than 24 hours trapped under a sinkhole in Japan that swallowed his vehicle in the greater Tokyo area, national officials confirmed. The crater formed at a busy ...