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

A decade-long wait to address such a significant issue raises questions about the efficiency of infrastructure management in ...

A sinkhole the size of a large swimming pool swallowed a driver and his truck in Yashio City, Japan on Monday morning.

Ono said he thought the sinkhole may have been caused by a "crack in the Nakagawa River Basin sewer pipe," NBC News reported. According to government officials in Saitama Prefecture, the collapse ...

The corrosion created a hole in the pipe, causing the soil above it to collapse, leading to the formation of the sinkhole. No issues were found during the last visual inspection of the pipe ...

He added that they estimate the sinkhole is about 33 feet wide — about the size of a swimming pool — and 20 feet deep. "Now, we're trying to see if we can pull up the truck using a large crane," he ...

Authorities were using drones and radar to assess the sinkhole’s interior and underground conditions while vacuum trucks were reportedly removing water. The collapse also likely blocked other ...