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PM Ishiba visits Osaka Expo venue to inspect progress of preparations

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Fitting, the preparations are going just as well as Ishiba's popularity.

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Only guys in favor of this are government officials who get free trips to Japan paid by taxpayers.

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Nice way to show support from Govt, however it can fix low public interest and expo goers.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/01/a4cc23906afc-public-interest-in-osaka-expo-remains-low-100-days-before-opening.html

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241227/p2a/00m/0na/020000c

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As I would have to pay the visitor tax.. are there any corporate suites on the wooden structure roof still available with digi virtual tour? Or are they already committed to intl. gov corporates. This is costing billions of taxpayers bucks! It's not a boxing stadium to exchange political punches.

-4 ( +2 / -6 )

Well....there obviously isn't anything else to do in the halls of government today. This is a priority for the PM.

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The grand ring is a complete copy of apple HQ.

-3 ( +5 / -8 )

The site looks fantastic. Even the PM of Japan is ready for the biggest international event this year. Hopefully we are able to get tickets.

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The grand ring is a complete copy of apple HQ.

It is a circle, so yes, a complete copy, of a ring-shaped building.

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba visited the venue of the World Exposition in Osaka on Sunday to bring attention to the event that is experiencing slower advance ticket sales than organizers expected.

Did he get time for a smoke today?

-4 ( +7 / -11 )

We purposely based ourselves in Osaka to explore Western Japan taking full advantage of the Shinkansen network last year rather than this year purely because we were not interested in the Expo 25 event. And expected the train networks to be busier than normal.

Big Expos are normally a letdown as well, the Millennium Dome Expo in London was an example of the trend. The whole idea belongs in the past, ideas and examples of the future can be seen on the internet at the user's convenience.

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That is a heck of a lot of wood. I hope they obtained it by cutting down those cedars that give everyone in Tokyo hayfever and replaced them with a more climate-resilient and wildlife-friendly alternative, that doesn't broadcast pollen to such an extent.

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Cost that continue to balloon, shrinking popularity, gus explosion risk, kleptocracy that always find something pretext of tax-wasting such as "bring attention", one of causes that recovery at disaster-hitted area has been delayed, 

Expo2025 is unnecessary.

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I've been to places like this area once the fan-fare, always less than claimed there would be, is over and done. It's a ghost town. In fact, I went to the nearby Intex Osaka, built for exhibitions (which get none!) and it is DEAD. It's a MASSIVE building that has maybe three shops open and only to ferry business due to Osaka Port having some ships go in and out there. My partner and I took one such ferry to Beppu recently and walking through the area was like going through a big city after the zombie apocalypse has taken its course. Parking lots with no cars, hotels with no customers and empy lobbies with furniture knocked over, elevators you think might stop mid-travel, etc. It's freaky. Worse than that, the whole thing was built on a similar promise as Expo -- "good for the people" when it is a massive tax hole and a boondoggle that will be abandoned once finished.

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Just had a look on the Intex site and it appears that the situation is not as bleak as Aoi makes out.

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nice potemkin village.

great tax wasting.

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kurisupisu: "Just had a look on the Intex site and it appears that the situation is not as bleak as Aoi makes out."

Dude, it's a wasteland. Naturally if you look at the site it's going to show off what little it has going for it, which is very, very little.

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