The crater, which reached about 32 feet wide and 16 feet deep, popped up in Yashio City on Monday around 10 a.m. (8 p.m. ET), Motohiro Ono, the governor of Saitama Prefecture said during a news ...

Authorities in Yashio City, Saitama, received calls around 9:50 a.m. (0050 GMT) saying that a road had caved in and a lorry had fallen. "We have been carrying out a rescue operation ever since," a ...

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.

Japanese emergency services in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture, received calls just before 10 a.m. local time Tuesday morning that the massive sinkhole had appeared in a busy intersection and a ...