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 ...

The government plans to conduct a survey on key sewage pipes across Japan in response to the road collapse that ...

TOKYO (AP) — A truck that fell into a sinkhole that suddenly opened on a road near Tokyo has captured national attention as attempts to rescue the elderly driver drag on.

Since January, residents of Koganei, a city in western Tokyo, have received numerous ... weakened the road’s foundation, leading to a sinkhole that swallowed a truck and its driver.

Dozens were evacuated and at least one garden was swallowed by a sinkhole in a southern English village on Monday, local reports say. The sinkhole, which formed in the village of Godstone in ...

Conditions at the site worsened in the following days as the sinkhole grew to 40 meters in diameter, shifting efforts to extract the driver from a rescue to a recovery operation. The sinkhole was ...

Emergency services have been struggling to find the 74-year-old driver since the truck plunged into a chasm that appeared near Tokyo two weeks ago. A truck cabin swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan ...

The hole suddenly opened up at an intersection in the city of Yashio, about a 30-minute drive north of Tokyo, during the morning rush hour on Tuesday, swallowing the lorry. The initial sinkhole ...

When the sinkhole developed on the morning of Jan ... land ministry and now an associate professor at the University of Tokyo. “And hydrogen sulfide leads to corrosion,” he said.