The crater, which reached about 32 feet wide and 16 feet deep, popped up in Yashio City on Monday around 10 a.m. (8 p.m. ET), Motohiro Ono, the governor of Saitama Prefecture said during a news ...

Saitama Governor Motohiro Ono visited the site on Feb. 1. The ramp will allow heavy machinery onto the scene to winch the truck with its driver to the surface. Meeting with reporters at the scene ...

“It may take more time to rescue (the individual) and restore (the roads)," Saitama Gov. Motohiro Ono said at the beginning of a task force meeting open to media on Sunday evening. In a time of ...