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Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
85 Years Later, Ticket from 1940 Gets Man Into World Expo: ‘I Feel Part of History'
Fumiya Takenawa exchanged an 85-year-old ticket from 1940 for two passes into the World Expo 2025 in Japan The 25-year-old Tokyo man attended the global exhibition in Osaka with his parents, who are Osaka residents Anyone with tickets from the 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan can use them for the World Expo 2025A 25-year-old man attended his first World Expo this year, gaining entrance into the global exhibition in an unconventional way. Fumiya Takenawa exchanged a ticket — from 1940's Grand International Exposition of Japan — for two passes into the World Expo 2025 in Osaka on May 5, according to local outlets Mainichi and The Japan Times. Organizers are allowing anyone with tickets from the 1940 event, which was postponed indefinitely amid Japan's involvement in World War II. 'This is my first expo, and I feel part of history,' Takenawa told Mainichi. 'Expos help people come together in peace. The person who had this ticket before me waited 85 years, and now their wish finally came true.' Takenawa, who lives in Tokyo, attended the World Expo during the exhibition's six-month stint with his parents, who are Osaka residents. Mainichi reported that a booklet of tickets in 1940 cost 10 yen — 'approximately 17,000 yen or roughly $118 in today's currency.' Tickets from the 1940 event also were allowed to be used during the 1970 World Expo in Osaka. At the time, 3,000 exchanges occurred, per Mainichi, which added that 35 years later the number dwindled to 100 exchanges during the 2005 Aichi Expo. is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! At those two previous events in Japan and this year's event, people were allowed to keep their old tickets from 1940 as keepsakes. The World Expo, which was last held in Dubai in 2020, will next be hosted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2030. Held every five years, the World Expo is intended to showcase scientific, technological, economic and social progress from all participating nations, not just the host country. Read the original article on People
Japan Times
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Japan Times
Man admitted to 2025 Osaka Expo with 85-year-old ticket
A man was admitted to the 2025 Osaka Expo in Japan with a ticket to a 1940 event that was called off as war escalated, organizers said. Tickets for the "Grand International Exposition of Japan" in Tokyo were released in 1938 but the event was postponed indefinitely as Japan became embroiled in World War II. Organizers of the 2025 expo, which opened last month and runs until mid-October, said in a statement they had decided to admit holders of tickets to the 1940 event. They exchanged one of the old tickets on Monday for two one-day expo passes, the statement said. Local media reported that the 1940 ticket-holder was 25-year-old Fumiya Takenawa, who lives in Tokyo but was visiting his parents' home in Osaka. Takenawa is a collector of expo-related memorabilia and in March he purchased the 1940 ticket online, the Mainichi Shimbun daily and other outlets reported. They published a photograph of him smiling and holding up the old ticket, which features an elaborate red and black design. The expo or World's Fair, which brought the Eiffel Tower to Paris, began with London's 1851 Crystal Palace exhibition and is now held every five years in different locations. Previous expos in Japan — in Osaka in 1970 and in Aichi region in 2005 — have had similar policies of giving "invitation tickets" to people holding passes for the 1940 event, the expo organizers said Monday. Takenawa was reportedly a fan of the huge white and red "Tower of the Sun," the symbol of the 1970 Osaka Expo that still stands in a park in the metropolis.
