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 ...

A sinkhole estimated to be the size of a large swimming pool swallowed a truck and its driver as it opened up in the middle of a busy intersection in Japan, according to multiple reports citing ...

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.

TOKYO -- An oval-shaped pit suddenly formed on a busy road in Yashio, Japan, on Tuesday ... driver after his vehicle was swallowed up by a sinkhole at a prefectural road intersection, in the ...

Two rescuers have reportedly been injured trying to retrieve the driver Kyodo via AP Images ... that a sinkhole had opened up at an intersection in Yashio, Saitama, according to Japanese newspaper ...

Rescue workers in Japan are trying to pull out a truck driver from a sinkhole that appeared on Tuesday and has since widened. The sinkhole appeared in Yashio city in Saitama prefecture, near the ...

30, 2025, two days after a truck fell into the sinkhole made on a street Tuesday. (Yu Matsuda/Kyodo News via AP) ...