A 74-year-old truck driver was swallowed Tuesday by the cavity which has since expanded to 40 metres (130 feet) across -- almost the length of an Olympic swimming pool.
Requests were issued Sunday for five households near the hole in the city of Yashio, Saitama region, to take shelter, a local government official told AFP.
On Saturday, Japanese rescuers completed building a 30-metre slope to send heavy equipment and reach the truck driver.
With the walls of the hole -- around 15 metres deep, according to NHK -- eroding, rescue workers are unable to stay inside it for long.
Around 1.2 million people living nearby have so far been asked to cut back on showers and laundry to prevent leaking sewage from hindering the operation.
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