The body of a truck driver has been recovered, three months after his vehicle fell into a sinkhole that suddenly appeared ...

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On November 9th, construction in Fukuoka City, Japan ... sinkholes seem to be popping up everywhere lately, what's impressive about the one in Fukuoka, is how quickly the city managed fix the ...

A truck fell into a massive sinkhole that opened up on a busy prefectural ... The standard service life of sewer pipes is said to be 50 years. Under Japan’s sewerage law, “parts that are ...

Japan. That sinkhole caused blackouts and traffic delays but crews worked around the clock to fix the gaping hole in the busy street. Last year, a sinkhole suddenly opened and swallowed an SUV in ...

Efforts to rescue a 74-year-old man trapped in a sinkhole near Tokyo have entered a second week, with nearly 1.2 million residents urged to cut back on water use, The Japan News reported Tuesday.

An enormous sinkhole which measured 30 metres long (98 ft), 27 metres (88 ft) wide, and 15 metres (49 ft) appeared in Fukuoka City in southern Japan. The hole may have been caused by an ongoing ...

Parts of a major street collapsed in the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka on Tuesday morning, opening a large sinkhole in the middle of the business district and disrupting local supplies of ...

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 ...

YASHIO, (Japan): A rescue operation is still ongoing a day after a truck and its driver fell into a sinkhole on Tuesday (Jan 28). Meanwhile, roughly 200 households near the cave-in were advised to ...