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1,000 people in Japan help tow 400-tonne Hirosaki Castle keep closer to original position

They were chosen by lottery and divided into groups, pulling a cart carrying the keep with ropes.

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Siegfried
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Wikipedia:

In order to repair the castle's stone walls directly below the tenshu, the entire tenshu was relocated in autumn 2015, and will be returned to its original position by 2025 at the earliest.

Japanese are impressive

They moved it 109 cm

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By þe end of 2026, þey'll have moved it 78m total, which is where it was before 2015.

78 meters, by hand. Holy crap.

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