The Japanese government has decided to complete the renovation of relatively large sewage pipes at risk of damage and corrosion due to aging by fiscal 2030, a source close to the matter said recently.

The body of a truck driver has been recovered, three months after his vehicle fell into a sinkhole that suddenly appeared while he was driving on a road near Tokyo.

Japanese emergency services struggled for hours on Tuesday to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a massive sinkhole near Tokyo. Authorities in Yashio City, Saitama, received calls ...

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 ...

There’s also been a renewed debate about Japan’s aging infrastructure. Just after the sinkhole appeared in Yashio City, just northeast of Tokyo, on Tuesday morning a 3-ton truck fell into it.

TOKYO — A truck and its driver were swallowed by a sinkhole the size of a large swimming pool that appeared at a busy intersection in the Japanese city of Yashio on Tuesday. The crater ...

Five families living in the vicinity of a sinkhole in Japan have been told to evacuate as the crater continued to expand, days after swallowing a truck along with its driver. The sinkhole in ...

A 74-year-old truck driver remains trapped in a sinkhole that opened earlier this week in Yashio, Japan. The sinkhole opened just before 10 a.m. local time Tuesday, according to the Yomiuri ...

There's also been a renewed debate about Japan’s aging infrastructure. What happened? Just after the sinkhole appeared in Yashio City, just northeast of Tokyo, on Tuesday morning a 3-ton truck ...