The unnamed 74-year-old male driver plummeted into the hole when the ground suddenly collapsed at an intersection in Yashio City, northeast of Tokyo on Tuesday morning.

TOKYO: Japanese rescuers completed building a slope on Saturday (Feb 1) to reach a truck driver stuck in a sinkhole, officials said, four days after his vehicle was swallowed by the cavity now 40m ...

Firefighters will now launch a full-scale effort to find the 74-year-old driver as soon as preparations are made.

With snow also forecast for Tokyo's 23 wards and other flat areas, the agency is warning of possible traffic disruptions ...

Due to a low-pressure system passing south of Honshu, snowfall is expected in the Tokyo metropolitan area from early Sunday ...

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The space between the two sinkholes in a prefectural road in Yashio, Saitama prefecture, collapsed Jan 30 morning and created one larger hole, estimated to be more than 20m in diameter.

The Yashio City sinkhole continues to get bigger by the day, and rescue teams searching for a truck driver trapped inside have switched tactics in their operation.

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

Emergency teams trying to rescue a truck driver trapped for days in a huge sinkhole in a road north of Tokyo will take ...

Emergency teams trying to rescue a truck driver trapped for days in a huge sinkhole in a road north of Tokyo will take several more days to access the hole and begin large-scale work, authorities said ...