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  1. Minoru Saba @[email protected] ·

    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"
    mainichi.jp/english/articles/2
    #Osaka #NoMoreExpos #WhiteElephant #Japan

    #osaka #nomoreexpos #whiteelephant #japan
  2. Minoru Saba @[email protected] ·

    "Argentina has decided to withdraw its participation in the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka...Japan's minister in charge of the global event [Hanako Jimi] said Friday (21 Jun 2024)"
    mainichi.jp/english/articles/2
    #Argentina #NoMoreExpos #Osaka #Japan

    #argentina #nomoreexpos #osaka #japan
  3. Minoru Saba @[email protected] ·

    "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"
    asahi.com/ajw/articles/1522963
    #Japan #NoMoreExpos #WhiteElephant

    #osaka #japan #nomoreexpos #whiteelephant
  4. Minoru Saba @[email protected] ·

    @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"
    asahi.com/ajw/articles/1501716
    #NoMoreExpos #WhiteElephant

    #japan #nomoreexpos #whiteelephant
  5. Minoru Saba @[email protected] ·

    "PM Fumio Kishida had long distanced himself from the extravaganza [which was viewed] as an unwanted gift left by his 2 predecessors, Shinzo Abe and Yoshihide Suga"
    "...[but] aides to Kishida began raising concerns that [international trust in #Japan] could be hurt if the expo did not start as scheduled"
    "...in late August, Kishida made clear central govt was fully committed to the project"😂
    asahi.com/ajw/articles/1507104
    🔸Odds on lettuce outlasting Kishida seem to be shortening😎
    #NoMoreExpos

    #japan #nomoreexpos
  6. Minoru Saba @[email protected] ·

    "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
    mainichi.jp/english/articles/2

    #japan #osaka #nomoreexpos #whiteelephant
  7. Minoru Saba @[email protected] ·

    "...Riyadh won 119 votes, South Korea's Busan 29 and Italian capital Rome 17..."

    "...many rights groups had expressed dismay over Saudi Arabia winning the bid, arguing [Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman]'s glitzy reform drives hide a reality where dissidents are imprisoned and executions rampant"
    france24.com/en/middle-east/20
    #NoMoreExpos

    #nomoreexpos
  8. Minoru Saba @[email protected] ·

    "[Hanako Jimi] Japan's minister overseeing the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka has defended the 35B yen (approx. $232M) cost for [the Ring]"
    "Kazuma Nakatani [from] the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, denounced the project, saying, ”The people of Japan are struggling to get by amid the weak yen and high prices. And this 35B yen Ring comes right in the middle of that...” "#NoMoreExpos
    mainichi.jp/english/articles/2

    🔸Ring gets demolished after Expo closes
    tellerreport.com/life/2023-11-

    #nomoreexpos
  9. Minoru Saba @[email protected] ·

    "...Moscow has decided to refrain from participating in the World Expo in #Osaka..."
    mainichi.jp/english/articles/2

    🔸2 weeks ago Mexico and Estonia withdrew from the Osaka Expo 2025 due to rising construction costs. Russia's decision follows hints by Hanako Jimi, #Japan minister in charge of Expo 2025, that Russia might not be welcome. #NoMoreExpos
    english.kyodonews.net/news/202

    #osaka #japan #nomoreexpos
  10. Minoru Saba @[email protected] ·

    "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
    mastodon.social/@thejapantimes
    🔸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

    #osaka #japan #nomoreexpos #nomoreolympics #whiteelephant
  11. Minoru Saba @[email protected] ·

    "...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]"
    asahi.com/ajw/articles/1501893

    "...the seriousness of the situation...is raising serious questions about the wisdom of hosting the expo"
    #Expo2025 #WhiteElephant #NoMoreExpos

    #osaka #expo2025 #whiteelephant #nomoreexpos