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Recently in Japan, a large patch of busy road suddenly ... footprint – was filled within a week. The huge sinkhole shocked the world, but what’s more impressive is how few people were hurt ...

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

According to the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry, more than 10,500 sinkholes were found across Japan, many of ...

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 ...

YASHIO, Saitama: The space between the two sinkholes in a prefectural road in ... Road subsidence frequently occurs throughout Japan. According to the Road Bureau of the Land, Infrastructure ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...