In the 12 cities and towns where the Saitama prefectural government has called on people to reduce their sewer system use ...

No clues to the missing driver's whereabouts were found on Sunday, and authorities have decided to shift the search due to safety concerns.

What is wrong with us? We have billionaires with more money than they can ever spend, toying with the country, trying to take away minimal support for people in need.

An object that appears to be the cab of a truck trapped in a road sinkhole in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, has been ...

Rescue workers in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, are considering how to search for a man who went missing in a massive sinkhole that appeared last week at a busy intersection in Yashio City.

Emergency inspections of sewer facilities are underway across Japan to check for deterioration that might lead to road ...

Yashio, Saitama, Japan - January 31, 2025 Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 31, 2025, shows a large sinkhole ...

Under Japan’s sewerage law, “parts that are highly prone to corrosion” due to differentials in slope levels or generation of hydrogen sulfide must be checked every five years. But the law did not ...

A massive sinkhole near Tokyo that swallowed a truck and its driver a week ago, and has filled with sewage and debris, ...

Rescue operations were still underway on Monday for a driver whose truck fell into a sinkhole at an intersection in Yashio, ...

A sinkhole opened up in the middle of an intersection in Japan on Tuesday and, unfortunately, a truck and its 74-year-old driver were swallowed during the dramatic incident. He is still trapped down ...

Rescue teams are continuing efforts to rescue a 74-year-old man trapped in a sinkhole at an intersection in Yashio, Saitama, ...