#nomoreexpos — Public Fediverse posts
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Greece "is the 8th country to drop out after initially planning to participate in the [Osaka] expo...amid concerns about the event's ballooning costs"
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241130/p2g/00m/0na/009000c
#Osaka #NoMoreExpos #WhiteElephant #Japan -
"International expositions...have been used...for increasing national prestige"
"As that...came to an impasse, the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE)...redefined the expos in 1994 as venues for resolving global issues"
"But [2025 #Osaka Expo theme] “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”...is so vague that few [have any idea] what that means"
"...authorities have yet to outgrow the 1970 way of thinking"
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15229636
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@David Tokyo Olympics & Osaka Expo may have drawn public attention in #Japan away from the casino-centred integrated resort controversy, but plans are proceeding for turning the Expo site into an IR by 2030.
"...IR is scheduled to open on Yumeshima island in Osaka Bay around autumn 2030, following the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo"
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15017160
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"Japanese govt has revealed that it will bear at least 83.7B yen (about $565M) for the construction of the #Japan pavilion and other expenses for the 2025 [#Osaka Expo]"
"This amount is in addition to up to 235B yen (approx. $1.59B) to build the site, which is 1.9 times the original plan"
#NoMoreExpos #WhiteElephant
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20231128/p2a/00m/0na/004000c -
"Japanese govt has revealed that it will bear at least 83.7B yen (about $565M) for the construction of the #Japan pavilion and other expenses for the 2025 [#Osaka Expo]"
"This amount is in addition to up to 235B yen (approx. $1.59B) to build the site, which is 1.9 times the original plan"
#NoMoreExpos #WhiteElephant
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20231128/p2a/00m/0na/004000c -
"Corporate leaders and govt officials in Kansai have emphasized that the expo is a national, not a local, project and that other cities and prefectures should prioritize it, even over their own needs." #Osaka #Japan
https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/111221389419198543
🔸Déjà vu of Tokyo2020 'Recovery Olympics' which sucked up nationwide construction workers, thus delaying recovery work for the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami for yet another white elephant.🙄 #NoMoreExpos #NoMoreOlympics #WhiteElephant -
"...overall expenses are now certain to run over even the revised estimate [rumoured to be] around 230 B yen ($1.54B, 1.8x original estimate)"
"...first proposed [in 2014] by Toru Hashimoto, then mayor of #Osaka and founder of the Osaka Ishin party [which now wants central govt, i.e. taxpayers, to bear the increased costs]"
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15018939"...the seriousness of the situation...is raising serious questions about the wisdom of hosting the expo"
#Expo2025 #WhiteElephant #NoMoreExpos -
"...overall expenses are now certain to run over even the revised estimate [rumoured to be] around 230 B yen ($1.54B, 1.8x original estimate)"
"...first proposed [in 2014] by Toru Hashimoto, then mayor of #Osaka and founder of the Osaka Ishin party [which now wants central govt, i.e. taxpayers, to bear the increased costs]"
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15018939"...the seriousness of the situation...is raising serious questions about the wisdom of hosting the expo"
#Expo2025 #WhiteElephant #NoMoreExpos