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

A sinkhole that suddenly opened up on a road just northeast of Tokyo and swallowed a truck has captured national attention as ...

Japanese authorities have asked hundreds of residents near Tokyo to evacuate as a sinkhole at an intersection grew to more ...

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

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

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

Emergency workers have been hampered by unstable ground since Tuesday, when a truck and its driver were swallowed north of ...

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

Officials said that as waste water from the damaged pipe flooded the hole, it caused a second sinkhole to appear on Thursday.

Officials in Yashio city, located north of Tokyo, are trying to rescue a 74-year-old man whose truck was swallowed by a ...

There's also been a renewed debate about Japan’s aging infrastructure ... Television footage captured the asphalt road cracking and collapsing into the sinkhole, knocking down billboards.