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

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 ...

Repair work for all damage caused by a sinkhole in Yashio ... in Yashio and Soka cities in Saitama Prefecture and Tokyo’s Adachi Ward, said a shortage of essential water for production prevented ...

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.

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 ...

Sinkholes are no longer rare – it’s time to ask what’s making them worse. For most of us, sinkholes are the stuff of science fiction movies – terrifying, but infrequent. That illusion ...