The Japanese government has approved a new infrastructure plan aimed at enhancing disaster prevention and preparedness ...

The Japanese government on Friday approved a plan to enhance the disaster resilience of the country's infrastructure over the ...

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 ...

TOKYO — The body of a truck driver was recovered Friday three months after his vehicle fell into a sinkhole that suddenly appeared while he was driving on a road near Tokyo. The 3-ton truck fell ...

The 74-year-old driver was trapped in the huge sinkhole on Tuesday ... after it suddenly opened up during the morning rush hour in Yashio, Saitama, Rescue efforts became increasingly complicated ...

Three months after his truck plunged into a sinkhole near Tokyo, the body of a 74-year-old driver has been recovered. In January the three-ton truck fell into a hole that suddenly appeared on the ...

In a similar incident this year in the Japanese city of Yashio, a sinkhole the size of a large swimming pool swallowed a truck and its driver. The 74-year-old driver was never found after a two ...

Experts say the Yashio sinkhole was caused by corrosion in sewer pipes. The unsteady ground and a hollow space below it had hampered the rescue, while residents were asked to cut back on water use ...