Concerns persist over Osaka Expo preparations 6 months before opening

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1. Honestly, I’ve never heard of people talking about the past expos so I don’t know if people even really care about these anymore

2. Boondoggle. They’ll be busing students through this thing from all over Kansai to pump the numbers but yeah, I can’t see how these are relevant anymore considering the pace of technological change. I visit Osaka a few times a year for business but I doubt I’ll bother.

3. Thing is no one gives a fuck about the bougie fest. It isn’t a Japanese event and everyone knows it. Neither native nor foreigner have any interest at all.

4. Hahaha. Everyone of us here just knew it. The expo headquarters near the port looks like no ones even the offices most of the time.

5. Japan is stuck in the mindset that hosting major events will somehow build “prestige” to a country as the 1964 Olympics did. Times have changed and they’re gonna have to move past this thinking

   It doesn’t provide any benefits anymore. All it does is create unsustainable debt. The 2020 Olympics was just a disaster; nobody expected a pandemic to happen

   Then there’s this, which has just been plagued by controversy throughout

   I mean, Japan’s soft power is strong already.