{"id":69254,"date":"2025-01-31T18:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T09:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/31\/fears-grow-in-japan-for-truck-driver-trapped-in-sinkhole-for-third-day"},"modified":"2025-01-31T18:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T09:48:05","slug":"fears-grow-in-japan-for-truck-driver-trapped-in-sinkhole-for-third-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69254","title":{"rendered":"Fears grow in Japan for truck driver trapped in sinkhole for third day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents near Tokyo question slow pace of effort to rescue 74-year-old as workers race to build 30-metre ramp<\/p>\n<p>Fears are growing for a truck driver who has spent three days trapped inside a sinkhole in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>, as rescue workers started building a ramp in a desperate attempt to reach him.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old, who has not been named, became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/30\/japan-sinkhole-driver-trapped-two-days-tokyo\">trapped<\/a> when the sinkhole opened up in a road near Tokyo on Tuesday, swallowing him and his two-tonne truck.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/31\/fears-grow-in-japan-for-truck-driver-trapped-in-sinkhole-for-third-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents near Tokyo question slow pace of effort to rescue 74-year-old as workers race to build 30-metre rampFears are growing for a truck driver who has spent three days trapped inside a sinkhole in Japan, as rescue workers started building a ramp in&#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":[41,88,2715,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-sinkholes","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69254","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=69254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69255,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69254\/revisions\/69255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}