A sinkhole accident in Yashio is believed to have been caused by damage to an underground sewage pipe. Read more at ...

The 34-year-old man, named only as Park, was found 164 ft underground, around 17 hours the ground opened up in the Meyongil-dong district of the South Korean capital.

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TOKYO (Japan News/ANN): A start-up established ... As it is believed that a sinkhole accident in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, was caused by damage to an underground sewage pipe, the start-up ...

The government plans to conduct a survey on key sewage pipes across Japan in response to the road collapse that ...

Since January, residents of Koganei, a city in western Tokyo, have received numerous ... weakened the road’s foundation, leading to a sinkhole that swallowed a truck and its driver.

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Local accident has national ramifications. Three Kyodo News reporters -- Peter Masheter, Eduardo Martinez and Takaki Tominaga -- talk about a sinkhole which emerged in a city just outside Tokyo.