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Tl;dr: Its a pile or something similar to stabilise the ground, they pumped the water out of it and it lifted up out of the ground.
It's not a pipe at all. Crap article.
Sounds like the pipe was used to great an underground work space for the connection the workers were doing below. The steel walls kept the giant hole’s dirt from falling in.
It was a support jack. It's not a pipe, nothing gets piped in it.
Pipe just means tube, not that you have to use it as a fluid vehicle. There is structural Pipe. And they said they pumped the water out of it, which then let it float up on a presumes rising water table below, meaning it was hollow inside.
From JapanTimea article:
Support pipe use, like when you dig a hole and shore it up on the sides. Rathen than a pile driven in to stop layered geology from aliding off a slope. The articles mentioned they were using it to get to the bottom and do their connection work...not connect too this pipe, but it can still be called a pipe by definition of what piping is.