Firefighters have stopped searching for a truck driver in a sinkhole near Tokyo, Japan, after nearly two weeks. Rescue ...

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

Firefighters said they ended Sunday their search inside a sinkhole near Tokyo for a man whose truck was swallowed by it near ...

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

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

A truck driver has spent more than 24 hours trapped under a Japan sinkhole that swallowed his vehicle in the greater Tokyo ...

Water and debris continue to hamper the search for a truck driver now trapped for a week in a massive sinkhole that suddenly ...

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

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

Rescuers were unable to trace the 74-year-old driver remaining in the sinkhole, which appeared at an intersection in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, on Jan 28.

Takashi Oguchi, a geographer from the University of Tokyo, said sinkholes are rare in Japan, where most roads are built on unconsolidated fluvial and marine sediments. But he warned that when a ...