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25 August 2026

Major Aussie property market at risk of painful price plunge: 'It's finally arrived'

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Major Aussie property market at risk of painful price plunge: 'It's finally arrived'

The property party is over in this city as buyers find themselves with something they haven't had for a long time: leverage.

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25 August 2026

Japan enlists 1,800 people to drag a 360-tonne castle keep using ropes and rollers

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 together in northern Japan over the weekend to pull a 360-tonne castle keep a little more than two metres closer to its original resting place as part of ongoing renovations. The keep – a fortified tower within a castle – had to be moved to repair a wall that was damaged in a major earthquake.

Source: The Guardian WorldOriginal source