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Gov't approves Osaka's bid to host 2025 World Expo

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Wasn't this rejected the other day because of the casinos also being built? Those in charge of Expo realized that in many nations gambling is taboo, and so they could not allow Osaka to host it with the new casinos in close proximity.

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Sadayuki Sakakibara, the chief of the Japan Business Federation, heads the bidding committee

Hmmmmm sounds legit.

Osaka has proposed to hold the event on the artificial island of Yumeshima over a period of 185 days between May and November 2025, with estimates that it could benefit the economy by 1.9 trillion yen ($17 billion), while 28 million to 30 million people are expected to visit the fair. “It will bring significant economic impact to our country,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a press conference after the Cabinet approved Osaka’s bid.

Yeah like the Tokyo Olympics? False expectations. Also, the last one was held in Banpaku Expo Osaka and look whats left of it now? Where did all that money go?

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Big waste of money. The previous Osaka Expo in 1970 was a great success. Kansai Area needed a lot of infrastructure investment. The expo also made a lot of Japanese, who did not have enough money to travel outside of Japan, interested in foreign countries and foreign culture. The time has changed. An expo is last thing we need.

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What are they going to exhibit to the world? Their model for kindergartens?

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ThePBotAPR. 12, 2017 - 10:29PM JST

What are they going to exhibit to the world?

It is basically the other way around. It does not make sense to showcase Osaka in Osaka. Expo is an opportunity for the world countries to show their culture and products to the local people hosting the event.

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Are you saying Japan won't have their own pavilion at their own expo???

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ThePBotAPR. 13, 2017 - 11:22AM JST

Are you saying Japan won't have their own pavilion at their own expo???

I do not think a host nation pavilion is necessary. It does not make any sense.

What they actually do is to make a pavilion that is not to showcase the host nation, but to present "future" or "world unity".

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It is basically the other way around.

You sounded so sure here.

I do not think a host nation pavilion is necessary. It does not make any sense.

Here, not so sure. But the thing is, the host nation does have a pavilion, hence, my earlier sarcastic comment.

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