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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 ...

Hirosaki Castle in northern Japan is being moved back to its original site after being relocated for earthquake repairs 11 years ago. Using ropes and rollers, 1,800 people manually moved the structure ...

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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 ...

Hundreds of volunteers worked together to move a 400-ton castle in Japan with ropes and muscle in a community building effort. The castle, originally moved for repairs, will be moved back to its final ...

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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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