Expo 2025 has struggled with slow ticket sales and public concern over the construction budget.

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Japan's Osaka bans street smoking ahead of Expo 2025

Osaka mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama says the ban will make city ‘safe’. Meanwhile the Osaka region is extending a ban on smoking in restaurants.

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World Expo 2025 host city Osaka in Japan bans smoking in public

TOKYO: The Japanese city of Osaka on Monday (Jan 27) imposed a smoking ban on public streets as part of efforts to become more visitor-friendly ahead of this year's World Expo. Around 160 countries and regions are participating in Expo 2025, the latest edition of an event held every five years in diff

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The move is a bid to make Osaka's streets more visitor-friendly ahead of the event starting in April.

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Japan’s Osaka bans street smoking ahead of Expo 2025

TOKYO - The Japanese city of Osaka on Monday imposed a smoking ban on public streets as part of efforts to become more visitor-friendly ahead of this year's World Expo.

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Bangkok

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TOKYO, Jan 27 — The Japanese city of Osaka today imposed a smoking ban on public streets as part of efforts to become more visitor-friendly ahead of this year’s World Expo. Around 160 countries and regions are participating in Expo 2025, the latest edition of an event held every five years in different global locations. “The World Expo begins in April. We want to welcome many people from all over the world, so we want to make Osaka a city where …

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Dato’ Siew Ka Wei

Selangor

Malaysia

Smoking on the streets is now prohibited in the Japanese city of Osaka. Just weeks before the World Expo, the southern Japanese city is banning cigarettes in public. Osaka is expecting millions of visitors to Expo 2025, which will take place from April 13 to October 13. More than 160 countries or regions are participating in the five-yearly event.

Roken op straat is voortaan verboden in de Japanse stad Osaka. Op enkele weken van de Wereldexpo doet de Zuid-Japanse stad sigaretten in het openbaar in de ban. Osaka verwacht miljoenen bezoekers voor de Expo-2025, die plaatsvindt van 13 april tot 13 oktober. Meer dan 160 landen of regio’s nemen deel aan het vijfjaarlijkse evenement.

Osaka bant roken op straat op enkele weken van Wereldexpo

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Belgium

Osaka bans smoking on streets weeks before World Expo

Osaka banned smoking on the streets on Monday in a bid to make the city more “visitor-friendly” ahead of this year's World Expo.

Oszaka hétfőn betiltotta a dohányzást az utcákon annak érdekében, hogy az idei világkiállítás előtt "látogatóbarátabbá" váljon a város.

Ebben a városban már az utcán is tilos dohányozni

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Budapest

Hungary

In this city, smoking is prohibited even on the streets

TOKYO — The Japanese city of Osaka on Monday imposed a smoking ban on public streets as part of efforts to become more visitor-friendly ahead of this year’s World Expo. Around 160 countries and regions are participating in Expo 2025, the latest edition of an event held every five years in different global locations. “The World Expo begins in April. We want to welcome many people from all over the world, so we want to make Osaka a city where peop…

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The Japanese city of Osaka on Monday imposed a smoking ban on public streets as part of efforts to become more visitor-friendly ahead of this year's World Expo.

Osaka bans street smoking ahead of Expo 2025

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