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

A sinkhole that suddenly opened up on a road just northeast of Tokyo and swallowed a truck has captured national attention as ...

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

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

A sinkhole near Tokyo that swallowed a dump truck hole on Tuesday has now doubled in wide after combining with a second ...

More than a million people in Japan have been told to cut back on showers and laundry to help rescuers reach a pensioner ...

Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 29, 2025, shows sinkholes at an intersection in Yashio in Saitama Prefecture ...

Japanese emergency services struggled for hours on Tuesday to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a massive sinkhole near Tokyo. Authorities in Yashio City, Saitama, received calls ...

Two rescuers have reportedly been injured trying to retrieve the driver Kyodo via AP Images A large sinkhole near Tokyo has swallowed ... according to Japanese newspaper The Mainichi.

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 ...

0:40 Sinkhole in Japan swallows truck inside 5m deep hole A large sinkhole has opened up near Tokyo, swallowing a truck with a man inside, and now the race is on to rescue him. Japanese emergency ...