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

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 sinkhole in Japan that swallowed his vehicle in the greater Tokyo area, national officials confirmed. The crater formed at a busy ...

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 ...

Yashio, Saitama, Japan - January 31, 2025 Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 31, 2025, shows a large sinkhole at an intersection in Yashio in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo. The sinkhole ...

A driver whose truck was swallowed by a sinkhole two weeks ago is yet to be found, as authorities say it could take three ...

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

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