In 1970, when the World Fair came to Asia for the first time, Shin Takamatsu was just a student. The aspiring architect was studying at Japan’s Kyoto University while supporting a wife and young child ...

“The person who had this ticket before me waited 85 years, and now their wish finally came true,” said ticket holder Fumiya Takenawa Brian Anthony Hernandez, who has nearly 20 years of journalism ...

In early May, The Spokesman-Review made a call for readers to submit their favorite Expo ‘74 memories. They delivered. Some wrote of streakers and shaking hands with the president, while others spoke ...

It has been nearly a century since an international exposition opened at a moment as fraught as today. Like the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, Japan, is shadowed by a ...

Fifty-five years after hosting Expo 1970, Osaka is once again set to welcome the world as the curtain lifts on Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai this weekend. The World Expo’s opening ceremony, taking place on ...

Fumiya Takenawa exchanged an 85-year-old ticket from 1940 for two passes into the World Expo 2025 in Japan Fumiya Takenawa exchanged a ticket — from 1940’s Grand International Exposition of Japan — ...

A 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 ...