Sinkhole traps car on road in Nagoya; no one injured

Crumbling Japan.

In the Yashio case, … the male driver remains missing.

Hopefully the Nagoya driver didn’t need help getting out of the hole. Otherwise, they might still be in there, as in the case in Yashio.

Crumbling Japan.

Failing piping and infrastructure.

Amazed something hasn't happened in central Tokyo yet. The whole city is just a disaster waiting to happen. It's basically a network of canals paved over, crisscrossed by subways and other underground infrastructure. And much of it's sinking.

Crumbling Japan....Failing piping and infrastructure...

This is unfortunately true, and the Japanese media has picked up on it. The typical symptom of a country that is going broke is aging and failing infrastructure. We are seeing a lot of it now in the US, in some European countries, and here in Japan (especially outside of Tokyo, which gets better care). Parks, playgrounds, public steps, and many things that would cost relatively little to repair are simply roped off and left to decay for years unless they are in a prominent location. Infrastructure is on ongoing expense and drastic changed are needed in Japan to restart the economy improve living standards.

Many countries have a failing infrastructure, including the US with sewer systems built many decades ago. Main sewers in Japan are constructed from bricks. Earthquakes everyday subject them to stress.

Sewer infrastructures were built before the heavy modern-day trucks and other heavy road vehicles. The number of vehicles has greatly increased.

Sinkholes will continue to occur, large and small.

I see so many road works, certainly in Tokyo, and often at night when people are trying to sleep, that I’m surprised more of the infrastructure has not been dealt with

Sinkholes are the new plane crashes.

Asiaman7

Hopefully the Nagoya driver didn’t need help getting out of the hole. Otherwise, they might still be in there, as in the case in Yashio.

The whole car did not go in, so no. But I am sure the driver got the scare of his life, since he is undoubtedly aware of the situation in Saitama.

Crumbling Japan.

Failing piping and infrastructure.

Sinkhole are in many places, look Florida..

Sinkholes in Florida happen for a different reason. The state was a swamp with water in the gound. Its built on swampland.

This is unfortunately true, and the Japanese media has picked up on it. The typical symptom of a country that is going broke is aging and failing infrastructure. We are seeing a lot of it now in the US, in some European countries, and here in Japan (especially outside of Tokyo, which gets better care). Parks, playgrounds, public steps, and many things that would cost relatively little to repair are simply roped off and left to decay for years unless they are in a prominent location. Infrastructure is on ongoing expense and drastic changed are needed in Japan to restart the economy improve living standards.

100%.

I travel all through Tokyo and Kanagawa prefectures every week and have seen the majority of parks I visit have some amount of disrepair, rusty, kids playground equipment is taped off and stays that way for years, benches are broken or rotten, stations and the surrounding streets have steps broken or missing, tiles broken or missing on the footpath and the roads are patched quickly and shodily die to a lack of funds.

There is a lot of new building and construction of luxury malls and apartments but no money left to repair failing infastructure for the communities.

They are excellent at cutting down trees though. I am amazed at the amount of tree felling that goes on here.

An astounding amount of shade is disappearing in Kanto at least and contributing to the heat island effect of the cities. Could be elsewhere too but not witness to other places to know otherwise atm.

Let's see how much of a hash they make of this one. The response to the great hole of Saitama looked like a clown show

At least it's not as bad here as it is in countries like Italy and the UK.

One in the city of London the other day, 5-6m deep, 2-3m wide on the side of the road.

Global infrastructure problem. Happy to build, but no thoughts of maintenance.