{"id":69204,"date":"2025-01-30T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/30\/japan-sinkhole-driver-trapped-two-days-tokyo"},"modified":"2025-01-30T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T04:34:00","slug":"race-to-rescue-driver-trapped-in-japan-sinkhole-for-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69204","title":{"rendered":"Race to rescue driver trapped in Japan sinkhole for two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attempts in Japan to retrieve the man were temporarily halted early on Wednesday after a second sinkhole appeared<\/p>\n<p>Rescue workers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> are battling water leaks, gas pipes and unstable ground as they attempt to reach a man whose truck fell into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/sinkholes\">sinkhole<\/a> near Tokyo two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The hole, which is reportedly 10 metres across and 10 metres deep, opened up at an intersection in Yashio, Saitama prefecture, on Tuesday morning, swallowing the 74-year-old truck driver and his two-tonne vehicle.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/30\/japan-sinkhole-driver-trapped-two-days-tokyo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attempts in Japan to retrieve the man were temporarily halted early on Wednesday after a second sinkhole appearedRescue workers in Japan are battling water leaks, gas pipes and unstable ground as they attempt to reach a man whose truck fell into a sink&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,2715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-sinkholes"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69205,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69204\/revisions\/69205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}