Hirosaki (Japan) (AFP) – Chanting in unison, hundreds of volunteers in northern Japan heaved on ropes on Wednesday to pull a 400-tonne castle back towards its original position. The imposing fortified ...

Volunteers chosen by lottery pull three-storey keep using ancient technique – managing just over a metre a day Lilia Sebouai Global Health Security Reporter Show biography Lilia Sebouai is a reporter ...

More than 1,000 volunteers pull Japan’s Hirosaki Castle back to its original site in Aomori after a decade of renovation work on the 400-year-old keep. More than a thousand people gathered in Aomori ...

In 2015, an ancient Japanese castle was moved to repair a vital stone wall. With that repair finally completed, it needed to be moved back, so Japan recruited 1,800 people to essentially play ...

After repairs to Hirosaki Castle in Aomori prefecture, officials employed a technique known as hikiya to move the structure more than two metres To chants of “so-re, so-re”, about 1,800 people came ...

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About 1,800 people in northern Japan have helped move a 360-tonne castle more than two metres by hand as part of a major preservation project. Rotating teams pulled on 30-metre ropes attached to the ...

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Some 1,000 people helped tow the 400-tonne keep of Hirosaki Castle, one of Japan’s famous tourist attractions in Aomori Prefecture, on Aug. 23, moving it 109cm closer to its original position after it ...

The keep of Hirosaki Castle, a national historical treasure in the city of the same name, was moved in 2015 to repair the stone walls that supported it. By the end of 2026, it will be moved about 78m ...

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