On Jan. 28, 2025, a massive sinkhole suddenly opened in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture ... How will Donald Trump’s re-election as U.S. president impact Japan? In this episode of Japan Today: ...

It could take at least two to three years to repair a sewer rupture found after a road collapsed in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, according to the head of a prefectural panel studying the repairs.

A massive sinkhole in Saitama Prefecture that swallowed a truck and its driver a week ago, and has filled with sewage and debris, highlights the risk posed by Japan's aging pipes. Emergency workers ...

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.

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 ...

The festival is held at the prefectural Akigase Park in Saitama to celebrate the New Year and the coming of spring. The event features participants dancing to folk music. The Japan Kurdish ...

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 ...

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 ...

The object was found on Wednesday - the eighth day of rescue operations - during a search of a sewage pipe downstream from the sinkhole using an underwater drone, reported The Japan News.

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 record number of visitors came to Japan in 2024, thanks to surging post-pandemic global tourism and a decline in the yen that’s making the island nation an attractive and affordable destination.

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