Emergency teams trying to rescue a truck driver trapped for days in a huge sinkhole in a road north of Tokyo will take several more days to access the hole and begin large-scale work, authorities said ...

Japanese authorities have asked hundreds of residents near Tokyo to evacuate as a sinkhole at an intersection grew to more than 40 meters wide, hampering rescuers racing to reach an elderly truck ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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.

An aerial view of a large sinkhole that swallowed a truck and a man at an intersection in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture on January 30, 2025.

But he warned that when a large underground waterpipe ruptures, leaked water could wash away these sediments, creating a sinkhole. Much of Japan’s public infrastructure was built between the ...

Fears are growing for the health and safety of a truck driver who has now spent almost four days trapped in a sinkhole in Japan, after the road opened up and swallowed the truck he was driving.