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.

Over 1,000 residents were told to evacuate their homes in southwestern Japan as a wildfire continued to rage on Tuesday ...

A motorcyclist who plunged into a 70 foot (20 meter) deep sinkhole in South Korea's capital Seoul was found dead on Tuesday ...

A Japanese court ordered on Tuesday that a religious sect be stripped of official recognition, the government said, in the wake of the assassination of ex-premier Shinzo Abe.

A 20-metre-wide sinkhole in eastern Seoul collapsed beneath traffic, injuring a woman and trapping a motorcyclist, whose body ...

Cherry blossoms, or “sakura,” are Japan’s favorite flower and usually reach their peak in late March to early April, just as ...

A startup established by officials of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is going to start a business of ...

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

Westbound lanes are being detoured at Exit 34 to Route 15 northbound after the gaping hole swallowed up part of the roadbed, ...

Conditions at the site worsened in the following days as the sinkhole grew to 40 meters in diameter, shifting efforts to extract the driver from a rescue to a recovery operation. The sinkhole was ...

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

TOKYO (AP) — Welcome to the view from the stands in the middle of the jammed sellout at the Tokyo Dome on Tuesday as the Dodgers and Cubs opened MLB’s regular season. Baseball in Japan — the game is ...