A sinkhole accident in Yashio is believed to have been caused by damage to an underground sewage pipe. Read more at ...

The 34-year-old man, named only as Park, was found 164 ft underground, around 17 hours the ground opened up in the Meyongil-dong district of the South Korean capital.

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 ...

The government plans to conduct a survey on key sewage pipes across Japan in response to the road collapse that ...

Rescue efforts were halted as local firefighters, with support from the Tokyo Fire Department and other agencies, tried to drain the two sinkholes. On the evening of Jan. 29, they restarted the ...

A startup established by officials of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is going to start a business of ...

Westbound lanes are being detoured at Exit 34 to Route 15 northbound after the gaping hole swallowed up part of the roadbed, ...

Over 1,000 residents were told to evacuate their homes in southwestern Japan as a wildfire continued to rage on Tuesday ...

Conditions at the site worsened in the following days as the sinkhole grew to 40 meters in diameter, shifting efforts to extract the driver from a rescue to a recovery operation. The sinkhole was ...

A Japanese court on Tuesday issued an order to dissolve the Unification Church, upholding the government request for a ...