A start-up established by officials of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is going to start a business of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It has been one month since a sinkhole appeared at the intersection of a prefectural road in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture. A passing truck fell into the hole when it appeared, and the 74-year-old ...