The 2025 World Expo in Osaka attracted 200,000 visitors on Saturday, the largest single-day turnout yet. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/08/japan/osaka-expo-daily-visitors-record-high/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #2025osakaexpo #osaka #tourism
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Upgrade work at the Hanazono Rugby Stadium complex in Osaka Prefecture has not yet started, 5½ years after an agreement was reached between the local municipality and FC Osaka. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/09/04/more-sports/osaka-hanazono-stadium-delay/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #fcosaka #osaka #higashiosaka #hanazonorugbystadium
Osaka topped the list of powerful Japanese cities, excluding Tokyo, for the fifth year running, while Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture stayed in second place and Fukuoka reached third from last year's fifth place. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/03/japan/osaka-most-powerful-city/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #osaka #2025osakaexpo #tourism
Two firefighters who died in a fire that spread across two buildings in the city of Osaka were apparently trapped on the sixth floor of one of the buildings as it started to collapse. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/japan/osaka-fire-firefighters-deaths/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #osaka #firefighters
Two buildings in the city of Osaka burned down on Monday, leaving two firefighters dead and injuring four others. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/18/japan/osaka-fire-firefighter-deaths/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #osaka #firefighters
A restored 1970 Expo treasure leads 68 films from emerging voices across Asia at the Osaka Asian Film Festival. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/15/film/osaka-asian-film-festival-preview/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #2025osakaexpo #filmfestivals #shortfilms #asiancinema #osaka
An eight-hour suspension of services on Osaka Metro’s Chuo Line on Wednesday evening due to a power outage left some 30,000 visitors stranded at the Osaka Expo, forcing many to spend the night in the event’s pavilions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/14/japan/society/osaka-expo-train-suspension/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #2025osakaexpo #osaka#hirofumiyoshimura
Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura has suggested the possibility of making another bid for a so-called Osaka metropolis plan, an idea rejected twice in local referendums. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/13/japan/politics/ishin-osaka-metropolis-plan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #osaka #nipponishinnokai #localgovernment
Ticket sales for the ongoing World Expo in Osaka have exceeded 18 million, the break-even point for operating costs, organizers said Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/11/japan/osaka-expo-ticket-sales-break-even/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #2025osakaexpo #osaka
The theme of the Osaka Expo is “Designing Future Society for Our Lives.” But with climate change fueling severe summer heat, one of the expo’s top challenges has been to design a site that’s compatible with the present. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/10/climate-change/osaka-expo-large-events-summer-heat/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #2025osakaexpo #climatechange #heatwaves #health #osaka
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Instead of exposing myself to the madness of going to the Expo 25 thing while staying in Osaka, I did the much more relaxed, cheaper and probably more interesting alternative and visited the Expo 70 memorial park. I praised the sun and marvelled at the miniatures. Recommended for everyone liking retrofuture and the time where we still believed technology is here to save the day.
#japan #osaka #expo #retrofuturism #technology #design #art #fashion
Inside the sun tower, looking at the tree of life from below. Very colorful lighting, red walls, a green tree, yellow and orange jellyfish and other simple lifeforms hanging from it.
Very large Small scale model of the 1970 Osaka Expo.
Costumes from the Mitsubishi pavilion from 1970s Osaka Expo, Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter variants. Dresses with red and white designs with some blue accents.
Taro Okamotos Sun Tower from afar standing in a park on a lawn. Basically a sculpture of a long white alien dude, with two pointy arms on each side, one angry looking face on its stomach and a golden round face on the top.
Instead of exposing myself to the madness of going to the Expo 25 thing while staying in Osaka, I did the much more relaxed, cheaper and probably more interesting alternative and visited the Expo 70 memorial park. I praised the sun and marvelled at the miniatures. Recommended for everyone liking retrofuture and the time where we still believed technology is here to save the day.
#japan #osaka #expo #retrofuturism #technology #design #art #fashion
Inside the sun tower, looking at the tree of life from below. Very colorful lighting, red walls, a green tree, yellow and orange jellyfish and other simple lifeforms hanging from it.
Very large Small scale model of the 1970 Osaka Expo.
Costumes from the Mitsubishi pavilion from 1970s Osaka Expo, Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter variants. Dresses with red and white designs with some blue accents.
Taro Okamotos Sun Tower from afar standing in a park on a lawn. Basically a sculpture of a long white alien dude, with two pointy arms on each side, one angry looking face on its stomach and a golden round face on the top.
Nippon Ishin no Kai co-leader Seiji Maehara and three senior party leaders are stepping down from their positions to take responsibility for the party’s lackluster performance in the July 20 Upper House election. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/05/japan/politics/nippon-ishin-maehara-resignations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #nipponishinnokai #seijimaehara#hirofumiyoshimura #ldp #shigeruishiba #osaka
With the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito no longer having a majority in parliament, Osaka-based Nippon Ishin no Kai leaders have indicated they might be willing to become a third member — under the right conditions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/04/japan/politics/ishin-coalition-ldp/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #nipponishinnokai #seijimaehara#hirofumiyoshimura #osaka #ldp #shigeruishiba
Japan's Kobayashi Pharmaceutical will accelerate efforts to reform its corporate culture marked by workers' reliance on top management, Chairman Yoshihito Ota has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/04/companies/kobayashi-pharmaceutical-corporate-culture-reform/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #kobayashipharmaceutical #osaka #pharmaceuticals #health #corporategovernance
There was a time when the notion of a Japanese player making it to the NHL was absurd enough that it became the butt of a legendary hockey joke. Jordan Spence may be changing that view. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/08/03/more-sports/jordan-spence-hockey-hokkaido/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #jordanspence #hokkaido #ottawasenators #osaka
A fan of Suntory’s Roku gin? Look out for its new Osaka distillery when it officially opens to the public next spring. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/08/03/food-drink/suntory-new-distillery-gin-osaka/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #fooddrink #alcohol #osaka #drinking
Japanese startup SkyDrive is conducting demonstration flights of its flying car for visitors at the World Exposition in the city of Osaka for most of August. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/01/companies/flying-car-demonstration/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #2025osakaexpo #osaka #startups #skydrive