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Official designation: Nippon Bankoku Hakurankai Japan World Exposition (EXPO '70)

Duration: 15 March - 13 September 1970, 183 days

Opening: 14 March, 11 am

Theme: Jinrui no Shinpo to Chowa

Progress and Harmony for Mankind
- onward to more joy of life
- to better use of nature
- to better organisation of life
- to better reciprocal understanding

Organiser: The Japan Association for the 1970 World Exposition

President: Taizo Ishizaka

Place:Senri Hill, near Osaka, Japan

Area hectares: 330 hectares of which 228 hectares exhibition area, 186 foreign exhibitors

Invited participants: 126 countries and 21 international organisations
Participants: 77 countries, 4 international organisations, 32 Japanese companies and public institutions and 10 provincial and city

Visitors: 64,218,770, of which 62,515,770 Japanese and 1.7 million foreigners, 835,832 visitors on 5 September

Entrance charge: 800 Yen = $2.17

Costs:
Construction costs:: 36,891,240,784 Yen
Operating costs: 53,219,664,871 Yen

Profit: 19,439,402,017 Yen (= 52,820,000 US-Dollars)

Buildings: 32 Japanese and 84 foreign pavilions

Classification: 99 sections, 56 groups, 320 classes


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The Osaka World Exposition 1970
 
Year: 1970City: OsakaCountry: Japan
Duration: 5 March - 13 September 1970

 

 

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