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 ...

A truck cabin that was swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan two weeks ago has been located in a nearby sewer pipe, authorities ...

Just after the sinkhole appeared in Yashio City, just northeast of Tokyo, on Tuesday morning a 3-ton truck fell into it. At first the sinkhole was roughly 10 meters (33 feet) wide and 5-meters (16 ...

Five households in the immediate vicinity of a massive, ever-widening sinkhole near Tokyo were urged to evacuate on Sunday, with efforts to rescue a man stuck inside reportedly halted. A 74-year ...

A 2-meter-wide sinkhole emerged on a road in Nagoya, central Japan, on Thursday morning, leaving a car stuck but no one injured, loc ...

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 ...

At least one person’s remains could be inside a truck cabin swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan and found ... cabin that got sucked into a chasm near Tokyo, officials said, confirming that drone ...

The driver of a truck that fell into a gaping sinkhole at a busy intersection in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, two weeks ago is still missing. The search for the driver remains suspended ...

(Kyodo) SAITAMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Firefighters said they ended Sunday their search inside a sinkhole near Tokyo for a man whose truck was swallowed by it nearly two weeks ago, with attention set ...

The sinkhole, which now measures 40m (131ft) in diameter, opened at a road intersection in Yashio city near Tokyo. It is believed to be caused by a sewer rupture. Search teams are unable to enter ...