Published April 20, 2025Updated April 25, 2025 When Osaka first hosted the World Expo in 1970, a quarter-century after World War II, Japan’s economy was newly affluent and expanding so rapidly ...

northeast of Osaka. Many visitors carried Myaku-Myaku mascots or wore clothes matching its colors — red, blue and white — to get in the mood. The Expo comes only four years after Japan ...