With efforts to find a driver who fell in expected to take about three months, there is no concrete timeline in place on when ...

Japanese authorities have asked hundreds of residents near Tokyo to evacuate as a sinkhole at an intersection grew to more than 40 meters wide, hampering rescuers racing to reach an elderly truck ...

A labor union of nurses and other staff at medical institutions under Japan's National Hospital Organization staged a ...

A forest fire in northeastern Japan has scorched the largest area of land in more than 30 years, the central government said ...

Reports of suspicious phone calls and home visits by scammers posing as government officials have climbed since the sinkhole ...

A Kurdish residents' association in Japan has filed a damages suit against a man for defaming them through anti-Kurdish ...

A truck cab that fell into a widening sinkhole in Yashio, Japan, late last month has been found. Officials believe the body ...

A project to open a Starbucks cafe in the parking lot of a park in the Saitama Prefecture city of Gyoda has been suspended ...

Rescue workers in Japan are trying to pull out a truck driver from a sinkhole that appeared on Tuesday and has since widened. The sinkhole appeared in Yashio city in Saitama prefecture, near the ...

A prominent Japanese hibakusha atomic bomb survivor expressed regret Sunday over the Japanese government's decision not to ...

This move follows a road collapse incident in Saitama Prefecture, last month, believed to have been caused by a broken sewage ...

About 1,600 firefighters from 12 prefectures in eastern Japan were battling a forest fire here on the afternoon of Feb. 28.