Japanese authorities have asked hundreds of residents near Tokyo to evacuate as a sinkhole at an intersection grew to more ...

Rescue efforts to save a truck driver who fell into the hole entered their fifth day. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Officials in Yashio city, located north of Tokyo, are trying to rescue a 74-year-old man whose truck was swallowed by a ...

Rescue teams are continuing efforts to rescue a 74-year-old man trapped in a sinkhole at an intersection in Yashio, Saitama, ...

Emergency workers have been hampered by unstable ground since Tuesday, when a truck and its driver were swallowed north of ...

The Japanese sinkhole near Tokyo continued to grow on Friday as emergency crews continued their plan to install a temporary ...

The driver was able to talk with rescuers but they retreated after the area around the hole became unstable, a spokesperson ...

TOKYO -- An oval-shaped pit suddenly formed on a busy road in Yashio, Japan, on Tuesday, taking down a truck and trapping the ...

A road in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture, collapsed on Tuesday, January 28, creating a large sinkhole into which a truck ...

Japanese rescuers completed building a slope on Saturday to reach a truck driver stuck in a sinkhole, officials said, four ...

The board of education has also asked foreigners to submit a document which states their intention to continue to live in Japan. Saitama is the only city that requires the formality. When the city ...