Japan enlists 1,800 people to drag 360-tonne castle keep using ropes and rollers (theguardian.com)

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why did they use people instead of mechanical mean to pull the ropes?

Article says it’s a symbolic/community building thing. People will do the first 6 meters, machines will do the next 74 meters to finish it