Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried soybeans thrown at them in the hope of warding off evil spirits and ...

Five households in the immediate vicinity of a massive, ever-widening sinkhole near Tokyo were urged to evacuate Sunday, with efforts to rescue a man stuck inside reportedly halted.

Emergency teams trying to rescue a truck driver trapped for days in a huge sinkhole in a road north of Tokyo will take several more days to access the hole and begin large-scale work, authorities said ...

Emergency teams trying to rescue a truck driver trapped for days in a huge sinkhole in a road north of Tokyo will take ...

Rescue teams are continuing efforts to rescue a 74-year-old man trapped in a sinkhole at an intersection in Yashio, Saitama, ...

Japanese authorities urge evacuation as a massive sinkhole in Saitama grows, hampering rescue efforts to free an elderly truck driver.

The Japanese sinkhole near Tokyo continued to grow on Friday as emergency crews continued their plan to install a temporary ...

Officials in Yashio city, located north of Tokyo, are trying to rescue a 74-year-old man whose truck was swallowed by a ...

While America retains a gold standard for airline safety, there are stresses on the US air travel system that have been apparent in a series of near tragedies in recent years. Aviation experts have ...

Prosecutors summarily indicted an accountant of the Liberal Democratic Party’s bloc in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Friday for underreporting over ¥60 million ($386,000) of the group’s ...