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

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 ...

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

TOKYO: Rescuers were on Wednesday (Jan 29) trying to save a Japanese truck driver stuck in a sinkhole for more than 24 hours as local residents were evacuated over fears gas pipes could break.

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.

A massive sinkhole in Yashio, northeast of Tokyo, swallowed a truck, trapping its 74-year-old driver. Rescue efforts are ...

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.

A truck and its driver were swallowed by a sinkhole the size of a large swimming pool which appeared at a busy intersection ...

What followed was a grueling rescue effort, hindered by unstable ground, flooding and the unexpected expansion of the sinkhole into a massive crater. How will Donald Trump’s re-election as U.S.

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 ...