US EditionMan admitted to 2025 Osaka Expo with 85-year-old ticket
- Fumiya Takenawa, a 25-year-old memorabilia collector from Tokyo, attended Expo 2025 Osaka using a ticket originally issued for the canceled 1940 event.
- The 1940 international exhibition planned to be held in Tokyo was indefinitely postponed as Japan became increasingly involved in World War II.
- Expo 2025 organizers allowed holders of remaining 1940 tickets to exchange them for current Expo passes, continuing a policy from previous Japanese expos.
- Takenawa bought the 1940 ticket online in March and said, "Expos are bridges of peace" while visiting his parents in Osaka on May 5, 2025.
- This admission symbolizes closing an 85-year gap by using a 'phantom expo' ticket originally issued during Japan's imperial calendar year 2600.
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NBC NewsMan admitted to Japan's World Expo with 85-year-old ticket
Eighty-five years after his ticket was first issued for a similar event, a man was allowed to use it at this year’s World Expo in Japan. Fumiya Takenawa attended Expo 2025 in the city of Osaka with a ticket that was originally issued for the Grand International Exposition of Japan in 1940, the organizers of this year’s event said said in a statement on Monday, according to NBC News. They added that the original event did not take place because o…
Man Got Into World Expo In Japan Using An 85-Year-Old Ticket
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