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The Osaka World Exposition 1970
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Year: | 1970 | | City: | Osaka | | Country: | Japan | | Duration: | 5 March - 13 September 1970
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Facts and Figures
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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