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 ...

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.

Emergency workers in Yashio city outside Tokyo rushed to the scene on Tuesday ... The spokesman said that another sinkhole has since opened up nearby, and residents within a 650-foot radius ...

A sinkhole estimated to be the size of a large ... Saitama Prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo area. Even eight hours following the collapse, the man remained trapped inside his truck due ...

A tragic accident in Saitama shows how aging pipes, soft soil and climate threats are straining the country’s infrastructure.

Japanese rescuers have recovered the body of a truck driver who was swallowed by a huge sinkhole near Tokyo three months ago, an official said on Friday. A road in the city of Yashio caved in ...

The body of a truck driver has been recovered, three months after his vehicle fell into a sinkhole that suddenly appeared while he was driving on a road near Tokyo ...

(Mainichi/Tatsuro Tamaki) SAITAMA (Kyodo) -- A body found inside a massive sinkhole that opened at an intersection near Tokyo three months ago has been confirmed as that of a missing truck driver ...

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