Fumiya Takenawa, who lives in Tokyo, was recently admitted to the 2025 World Expo in Japan using a ticket to the 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan, an event that was called off as war escalated. Organizers of Expo 2025 in Osaka, which opened in April and runs through mid-October, said in a statement that they had decided to admit holders of tickets to the 1940 event. Takenawa, 25, is a collector of expo-related memorabilia, and in March he bought the 1940 ticket online. Previous Expos in Japan — in 1970 and 2005 — have had similar policies of giving “invitation tickets” to people holding passes from the 1940 event. Takenawa was a fan of the huge red and white Tower of the Sun, the symbol of the 1970 Osaka Expo that still stands in a park in the metropolis.
