On Sunday, five households near the sinkhole in Saitama Prefecture were asked to evacuate and take shelter by local government officials, The Japan Times reported. More than a hundred residents living ...

(AP pic) A truck cabin swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan has been found in a sewer pipe and may contain the body of its missing driver, a fire department official said on Wednesday. Rescuers have ...

Japan has deployed more than 2,000 firefighters to battle the country's biggest forest fire in three decades. At least one ...

Three hotel workers were found dead Tuesday in northeastern Japan after conducting routine maintenance on a hot spring source ...

TOKYO (AFP): Japanese rescuers completed building a slope on Saturday to reach a truck driver stuck in a sinkhole, officials said, four days after his vehicle was swallowed by the cavity now 40 ...

Researchers in Japan have created a drone using a silkworm moth antenna that can track scents, an innovation that could aid ...

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The Japanese government, through its embassy in Manila, is donating two units of rescue boats to the province of Ilocos Norte ...