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

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

A sinkhole near Tokyo that swallowed a dump truck hole on Tuesday has now doubled in wide after combining with a second ...

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

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

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

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

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

A sinkhole the size of a large swimming pool swallowed a driver and his truck in Yashio City, Japan on Monday morning.

Emergency workers were searching for a missing driver on Wednesday after a large sinkhole swallowed a truck near Tokyo.

TOKYO -- An oval-shaped pit suddenly formed on a busy road in Yashio, Japan, on Tuesday, taking down a truck and trapping the ...

Saitama Prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo area ... Yashio City Police told NHK, a Japanese public broadcaster, that the investigation into the sinkhole is ongoing and that rescuers have ...