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 struggled for hours on Tuesday to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a massive sinkhole near Tokyo. Authorities in Yashio City, Saitama, received calls ...

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France claimed the judo gold medal in the first mixed team event ever held in the Games on Saturday, beating Japan 4-1 in the final and helping their heavyweight legend Teddy Riner add to his ...

HONG KONG--Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 index regaining some of its sharp losses from a day earlier. A quarterly “tankan” survey by the Bank of Japan showed ...

3, 2024. (Mainichi/Hideyuki Yamada) HAMAMATSU, Shizuoka -- Researchers in Japan have developed a recycling technology for the effective use of mixed post-consumer plastic waste, a group led by ...

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Rescuers were on Wednesday trying to save a Japanese truck driver stuck in a ... But the driver's cabin is still inside the hole, estimated to be about 33 feet wide — roughly the size of a ...