HIROSAKI, Japan >> After 11 years sitting off its foundation, the main keep of Hirosaki Castle is inching closer to its ...

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Hundreds of people pulled the keep of Hirosaki Castle closer to its original position. Si-take via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Some 1,800 people gathered in northern Japan this month to help ...

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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 ...

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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