Nearby residents were evacuated, and five major roads cordoned off in Hakata ward in Fukuoka’s business district. The gaping hole – which started off as two smaller ones before merging into the larger cavity – appeared 300 meters from the JR Hakata railway station. The sinkhole is now a whopping 27 meters wide, 30 meters long and 15 meters deep. It is filled with water that seeped in from sewage p