northeast of Tokyo. Television footage captured the asphalt road cracking and collapsing into the sinkhole, knocking down billboards. At first the sinkhole was roughly 33-feet wide and 16-feet ...

Since January, residents of Koganei, a city in western Tokyo, have received numerous ... weakened the road’s foundation, leading to a sinkhole that swallowed a truck and its driver.

Japan plans to invest over 20 trillion yen ($134 billion) in the five years from fiscal 2026 to enhance the country's resilience to n ...

TOKYO (Japan News/ANN): A start-up established ... As it is believed that a sinkhole accident in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, was caused by damage to an underground sewage pipe, the start-up ...

One person has been killed after a massive sinkhole opened up in Seoul, the fire department said Tuesday, with harrowing video footage showing the moment his vehicle was swallowed by the hole. The ...