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Expo 1970 Osaka: the story of Japan’s first World Expo

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Expo 1970 Osaka: the story of Japan’s first World Expo

Shinya Hashizume
Doctor of Engineering, Distinguished Professor, Osaka Prefecture University

Fifty years have passed since the first World Expo in Japan: Expo 1970 Osaka. The Expo was held from 15 March to 13 September 1970, under the theme “Progress and Harmony for Mankind”. It was a category-one General Exhibition under the Convention Relating to International Exhibitions.

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