{"id":372945,"date":"2026-08-25T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/japanese-castle-manually-moved-by-1800-people\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:00:30","slug":"japanese-castle-manually-moved-by-1800-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/japanese-castle-manually-moved-by-1800-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese castle manually moved by 1,800 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/DPiWORogP1w\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese castle manually moved by 1,800 people\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DPiWORogP1w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>More than 1000 people in Japan pulled on ropes attached to a platform carrying the Hirosaki Castle keep as part of ongoing renovations of the building, damaged in a major earthquake.<br \/>\nSubscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>Rotating teams of 80 volunteers heaved on 30-metre ropes as the keep, or fortified tower, of Hirosaki Castle in Aomori prefecture edged closer to its destination.<\/p>\n<p>Motoharu Nakata, 61, travelled from Hiroshima on the other side of the country. \u201cI pulled it 11 years ago too. It\u2019s very moving to be able to participate again. There\u2019s absolutely no other opportunity to pull a castle \u2013 it was fantastic,\u201d Nakata told the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun.<\/p>\n<p>The event is seen as symbolic and community-building.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the structure, about 73 metres, will be carried out using machinery by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>#japan\u00a0#hirosakicastle #japancastle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1000 people in Japan pulled on ropes attached to a platform carrying the Hirosaki Castle keep as part of ongoing renovations of the building, damaged in a major earthquake. Subscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 Rotating teams of 80 volunteers heaved on 30-metre ropes as the keep, or fortified tower, of Hirosaki Castle in Aomori prefecture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":372946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-372945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Japanese castle manually moved by 1,800 people | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Japanese castle manually moved by 1,800 people for free, here on News ISC. 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