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The operating expenses for the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city of Osaka are projected to inflate 1.4-fold from an earlier estimate to 116 billion yen amid rising labor costs, the event operator said Tuesday.

Yeah, that's right. Blame labor. As you often see the Africans, Turks and Bangladeshis at construction sites around Japan now, they are demanding too much!

Meanwhile funds are being diverted from more important issues like disaster relief to the expo, the crony construction contractors with non-bid contracts are taking a huge cut, and oh don't forget the money disappearing into the pockets of associated pols, bureaucrats and ad companies.

The Olympics again and again.

But when the ballooning deficit comes in, it must have been because of those rising labor costs.

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I have a (Japanese) friend who is a carpenter/ shopfitter.

With every new contract he is being squeezed to do it cheaper.

With rising material and operating costs the only thing that he can trim is his wages.

These articles NEVER give and example of how much the construction companies are actually paying workers (including the lowly sub-contractors) or who is actually receiving that money.

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Government officials love these lucrative (including purchasing weapons) projects because they know they control the narrative.

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Operating expenses...................of course, why did we not think of this? Time to get out the small brown envelopes, and out stretched hands of the various officials, these expenses only go so far you know.

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expenses up 1.4-fold on rising labor costs

Japan Inc way to handle this in the past, just hire those foreign cheap labor which already work underpaid below minimum wage and then make the do unpaid overtime.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/21/national/social-issues/trainees-hiroshima-overwork-unpaid-overtime/

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/11/c21d735d36a9-vietnamese-trainees-call-out-unpaid-illegal-overtime-at-japan-firm.html

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Unbelievable, the whole thing seems badly planned. I mean look at that awful mascot, defies belief.

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I'm unclear on the meaning of "1.4 fold". Does that mean an increase of 40% or 140%?

IOW, does it mean something estimated to cost 100 million will now cost 140 million, or is it 240 million?

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What an unpredictable surprise.

I didn’t know labour costs had increased by 40%.

I don’t know anyone who has received a 40% pay increase in the last six months.

Why, it’s almost as if they got away with bilking us for the olympics and are running exactly the same playbook again.

Say it isn’t so?

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IOW, does it mean something estimated to cost 100 million will now cost 140 million, or is it 240 million?

According to Google, a "fold" is 100%, so "four-fold" would mean 400%, so 100 million rising four fold would be 400 million. (At least, that's what Google says, and the article also may have used the term incorrectly.)

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Costs are way more than the estimates were?

Wow, no one predicted that at all……..

what a shocker……

absolutely no one saw this coming.

cut the crap Japan.

no one is interested in this money pit anymore.

complete waste of time.

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Unbelievable, the whole thing seems badly planned. I mean look at that awful mascot, defies belief.

Seeing (same (partially Loot manuever on rinse repeat) x what? 80 more yrs? Yer trying to tell me it still aint believing enuff for ya? Just hearing about it, sure its Total unseriousness… But sure does look more like a "badly planned" "on purpose" "real" "plan for tax Loot in my accounts after all…" doesnt it? LOL. Never problems rakin in the ichimansatsus fistfulls for these planners… Then everybody suddnely remembers their right bank name, acct nos, passcodes. Its like…magic

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Laguna

"IOW, does it mean something estimated to cost 100 million will now cost 140 million, or is it 240 million?"

According to Google, a "fold" is 100%, so "four-fold" would mean 400%, so 100 million rising four fold would be 400 million.

Except the article says "1.4 fold", not "4 fold". So, it's still somewhat confusing.

I'll go ahead and assume it means 1.4X, or a 40% increase.

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