Rescuers in Japan are working to pull a truck driver to safety after his vehicle fell into a large sinkhole. The swimming pool-sized sinkhole in Yashio City, Saitama prefecture, first opened on ...

Another sinkhole has since opened up nearby, and residents within a 650-foot radius had been evacuated, a spokesman said.

The driver was able to talk with rescuers but they retreated after the area around the hole became unstable, a spokesperson ...

Almost eight hours after the collapse ... city which sits to the north of Japan's capital Tokyo. Police told NHK that an investigation into what caused the sinkhole was currently underway.

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

There's also been a renewed debate about Japan’s aging infrastructure. Just after the sinkhole appeared in Yashio City, just northeast of Tokyo, on Tuesday morning a 3-ton truck fell into it.

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 ...