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.

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 ...

On Sunday, five households near the sinkhole in Saitama Prefecture were asked to evacuate and take shelter by local government officials, The Japan Times reported. More than a hundred residents ...

A truck and its driver have been swallowed by a sinkhole on a busy intersection in Japan, officials say, with a rescue operation under way. The driver was still trapped in the vehicle eight hours ...