Aerial footage from the broadcaster showed at least 12 fire trucks were on the scene in the city which sits to the north of Japan's capital Tokyo. Police told NHK that an investigation into what ...

The Government of Japan, through a grant assistance of JPY 300 million, has decided to provide state-of-the-art Japanese fire ...

At least one person’s remains could be inside a truck cabin swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan and found inside a sewer pipe after two weeks of search, a fire department official said on Wednesday.

Rescue workers in Japan say it could be three months before they recover a body of a truck driver whose vehicle ... to be inside is a person," local fire department official Tomonori Nakazawa ...