{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_dtewgei7vlr75hz4jrtq","title":"Japanese Shinto ceremonial sand-digging in London celebrates start of British Library expansion","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/japanese-shinto-ceremonial-sand-digging-in-london-celebrates-start-of-dtewgei7vl","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_dtewgei7vlr75hz4jrtq","seq":1276735,"kind":"article","title":"Japanese Shinto ceremonial sand-digging in London celebrates start of British Library expansion","url":"https://soranews24.com/2026/10/02/japanese-shinto-ceremony-held-in-london-to-celebrate-start-of-british-library-expansion","summary":"Swapping out scissors and ribbons for sand and farm tools. Japanese property developer Mitsui Fudosan recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for its historic £1.1 billion (approximately 230 billion yen [US$1.46 billion]) expansion of the British Library in London, and in doing so also brought a long-standing Japanese tradition to the other side of the world. […]","published":"2026-10-02T04:00:17Z","seen":"2026-10-02T06:08:01Z","lang":"en","country":"JP","source":{"id":"kite-soranews24-com-5a8967","name":"soranews24.com","domain":"soranews24.com"},"via":"kite-soranews24-com-5a8967","topics":["japan","uk","british library","chakkoshiki","construction ceremonies","culture","groundbreaking ceremony","jichinsai"],"authors":["Elliot Hale"],"entities":[{"id":"Q23308","name":"British Library","type":"org"}],"image":"https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/09/TS1301_TP_V4.jpg","story":"st_dtewgei7vlr75hz4jrtq","category":"arts-culture-entertainment","category_p":0.20999999344348907,"sentiment":"positive","tone":0.6899999976158142,"political":0.20999999344348907}]}