The chance to help move the castle keep drew thousands of applications from Japan and abroad. Groups of lottery winners took ...

In Japan, the ancient tradition of hikiya involves moving buildings with ropes and rollers. About 4,000 people teamed up to ...

About 1,800 volunteers pulled ropes to move the 360-tonne Hirosaki Castle keep back into position using hikiya, an ancient ...

Volunteers used ropes and a traditional building-moving technique to shift Hirosaki Castle after years of restoration work.

Chanting in unison, hundreds of volunteers in northern Japan heaved on ropes on Wednesday to pull a 400-tonne castle back ...

Japan enlists 1,800 people to pull a 360-tonne castle keep more than two metres by hand - The Hirosaki Castle keep was moved ...

The quake also heavily damaged an important piece of Japanese heritage: Kumamoto Castle, a grand palace built more than 400 years ago and famously besieged by an army of rebellious samurai in the 19th ...

After repairs to Hirosaki Castle in Aomori prefecture, officials employed a technique known as hikiya to move the structure more than two metres ...