Reports of suspicious phone calls and home visits by scammers posing as government officials have climbed since the sinkhole ...
A prominent Japanese hibakusha atomic bomb survivor expressed regret Sunday over the Japanese government's decision not to ...
The infrastructure ministry said Friday that emergency inspections on sewage pipes, which were conducted in the wake of last month's road cave-in in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, have found ...
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TOKYO -- An oval-shaped pit suddenly formed on a busy road in Yashio, Japan, on Tuesday, taking down a truck and trapping the driver inside. Emergency crews battled unstable ground and debris.
Tokyo, Feb. 14 (Jiji Press)--Japan’s infrastructure ministry ... in the wake of last month’s road cave-in in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, have found abnormalities such as corrosion at three ...
Yashio, Saitama, Japan - January 31, 2025 Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 31, 2025, shows a large sinkhole at an intersection in Yashio in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo. The sinkhole ...
The metal mass found inside an underground sewer pipe near the site of a sinkhole in Saitama Prefecture has been identified as the cab of a truck that plunged into the hole created by the incident ...
On Tuesday, part of a road intersection in Saitama prefecture, about 18 miles north of Japan’s capital, opened up, swallowing a three-ton truck and its driver, a 74-year-old man, prompting a ...
The central government ordered the inspections after a massive sinkhole appeared in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture, on January 28. A truck fell into the hole, and the driver has still not been found.