On Jan. 28, 2025, a massive sinkhole suddenly opened in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture, swallowing a two-ton truck ... And could it happen again? In this episode of Japan Today Spotlight, we ...

A demonstration group advocating for the exclusion of Kurds in Japan, left, and citizens counter-protesting against them are seen in front of JR Warabi Station in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture ...

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TOKYO - An object was found on Feb 5 in a section of a sewage pipe downstream from the site of a sinkhole in a road in Yashio, Saitama prefecture ... governments across Japan have also been ...

A slope was completed Saturday for using heavy machinery in the search for a male truck driver trapped in a sinkhole that appeared Tuesday in the city of Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo.

SAITAMA—A drone sent into a sewage pipe below a sinkhole at an intersection in Yashio city detected what appears to be a truck cabin, but the driver was not found. The object is about 3 meters ...

Authorities in Saitama Prefecture announced Wednesday that they have discovered what appears to be the cabin of a truck inside a sewer pipe downstream from the site of a road collapse that ...

Neighborhoods in Saitama and Chiba prefectures have risen in popularity as preferred places to live in among residents of the greater Tokyo metropolitan area, a survey showed. But the Yokohama ...

Uniqlo announced that it has added new stamps for shirts and merchandise based on Capcom’s Monster Hunter series to its UTme! custom design service in Japan. People in the country can now make ...

The trip gave the impression that Japan’s relations with China were on the mend. Iwaya indicated that Japan would be open to hosting a Japan-China-South Korea Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in ...

TOKYO -- Japan welcomed a record 36.87 million tourists in 2024, up 47.1% from the previous year thanks to the weak yen, according to data released Wednesday by the Japan National Tourism ...

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck southwest Japan on Monday, the country's Meteorological Agency has said. The earthquake hit at 9.19 pm local time (3:19 pm CET), it added. Tsunami warnings were ...