https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/the-people-of-hirosaki-japan-try-to-move-a-castle-by-handContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/the-people-of-hirosaki-japan-try-to-move-a-castle-by-handhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/the-people-of-hirosaki-japan-try-to-move-a-castle-by-hand#u52887Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:11:26 +0000A group of 1,800 volunteers in Hirosaki, Japan, manually dragged a castle keep back toward its original location. The team used ropes and rollers to move the structure by hand. This effort follows ten years of restoration work on the building. Sources disagree on the exact weight of the keep, citing it as either 360 tonnes or 400 tons.Why it mattersThe move returns the tower to its historical site after a decade of repairs. This manual method avoids modern heavy machinery to relocate the massive structure.What is confirmed1,800 people were enlisted to move the castle keep.The move was conducte