The space between the two sinkholes collapsed early on Jan 30 morning and created one larger hole. Read more at ...

A sinkhole in the city of Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, caused by a ruptured underground drainage pipe underscores the growing ...

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

Yashio, Saitama, Japan - January 30, 2025 Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 30, 2025, shows a large sinkhole at an intersection in Yashio in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo. A sinkhole ...

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

A sinkhole at an intersection in Saitama Prefecture that swallowed a truck collapsed further Thursday and merged with a ...

The search for a 74-year-old truck driver trapped in a Japan sinkhole entered a fourth day on Friday (Jan 31) as worsening ...

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

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

Hopes fade for a trapped truck driver as unstable ground and rising water hinder Japan’s sinkhole rescue efforts.

Rescue workers in Japan are trying to pull out a truck driver from a sinkhole that appeared on Tuesday and has since widened.