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[Breaking News]World Exposition in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan, March 28 Kyodo - Video taken in a hangar in Osaka on March 28, 2025, shows a life-size mockup of a flying vehicle to be used for demonstration flights by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between a vertiport outside the hanger and another vertiport located on the venue of the expo on a nearby artificial island. (Kyodo)

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken in a hangar in Osaka on March 28, 2025, shows Myaku-Myaku, the official mascot of the 2025 World Exposition and a life-size mockup of a flying vehicle to be used for demonstration flights by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between a vertiport outside the hanger and another vertiport located on the venue of the expo on a nearby artificial island.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken in a hangar in Osaka on March 28, 2025, shows a life-size mockup of a flying vehicle to be used for demonstration flights by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between a vertiport outside the hanger and another vertiport located on the venue of the expo on a nearby artificial island.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken in a hangar in Osaka on March 28, 2025, shows a life-size mockup of a flying vehicle to be used for demonstration flights by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between a vertiport outside the hanger and another vertiport located on the venue of the expo on a nearby artificial island.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken in a hangar in Osaka on March 28, 2025, shows a life-size mockup of a flying vehicle to be used for demonstration flights by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between a vertiport outside the hanger and another vertiport located on the venue of the expo on a nearby artificial island.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken in a hangar in Osaka on March 28, 2025, shows a life-size mockup of a flying vehicle to be used for demonstration flights by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between a vertiport outside the hanger and another vertiport located on the venue of the expo on a nearby artificial island.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken at Osaka port on March 28, 2025, shows the newly completed vertiport to be used for demonstration flight of a flying vehicle by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between the vertiport and another vertiport also completed at the venue of the expo on a nearby artificial island.

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Cat Bus starts operating in central Japan park

NAGAKUTE, Japan, March 16 Kyodo -A low-speed electric vehicle modeled after the Cat Bus from Studio Ghibli's anime film "My Neighbor Totoro" runs in the Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park in Nagakute in Aichi Prefecture on March 16, 2024. The service started the same day in the central Japan park, which houses the Ghibli theme park.(Kyodo)

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Cat Bus starts operating in central Japan park

A low-speed electric vehicle modeled after the Cat Bus from Studio Ghibli's anime film "My Neighbor Totoro" runs in the Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park in Nagakute in Aichi Prefecture on March 16, 2024. The service started the same day in the central Japan park, which houses the Ghibli theme park.

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Cat Bus starts operating in central Japan park

A low-speed electric vehicle modeled after the Cat Bus from Studio Ghibli's anime film "My Neighbor Totoro" runs in the Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park in Nagakute in Aichi Prefecture on March 16, 2024. The service started the same day in the central Japan park, which houses the Ghibli theme park.

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[Breaking news] Cat Bus electric vehicles at central Japan park

NAGAKUTE, Japan, Feb. 27 Kyodo - Cat Bus low-speed electric vehicles, inspired by the animation film "My Neighbor Totoro," are parked at Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park in Nagakute in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Feb. 27, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Cat Bus electric vehicle at central Japan park

A Cat Bus low-speed electric vehicle, inspired by the animation film "My Neighbor Totoro," is driven at Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park in Nagakute in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Feb. 27, 2024.

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Cat Bus electric vehicles at central Japan park

Cat Bus low-speed electric vehicles, inspired by the animation film "My Neighbor Totoro," are parked at Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park in Nagakute in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Feb. 27, 2024.

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Cat Bus electric vehicles at central Japan park

Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura (2nd from R) rides on a Cat Bus low-speed electric vehicle, inspired by the animation film "My Neighbor Totoro," at Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park in Nagakute in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Feb. 27, 2024.

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Shoichiro Toyoda, honorary chairman of Toyota Motor, dies at 97

Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Shoichiro Toyoda speaks during the opening ceremony of the Aichi Expo in March 2005 in Nagakute in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Toyoda, the honorary chairman of Toyota, died of heart failure on Feb. 14, 2023, at age 97.

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Aichi expo characters debut at Tokyo Station for promotion

TOKYO, Japan - Dolls of Aichi expo characters Morizo and Kikkoro appear at JR Tokyo Station on Jan. 8 for promotion of the world exposition starting in March.

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Aichi expo site illuminated in test

NAGAKUTE, Japan - The site of the 2005 world exposition in Aichi Prefecture is illuminated in a test on Dec. 27 prior to the illuminations for the year-end and New Year's Day.

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Vancouver medalists in Aichi show

NAGOYA, Japan - Mao Asada of Japan (L) and Evgeni Plushenko of Russia, both silver medalists in the Vancouver Games, perform during a figure skating show at Aichi Expo Memorial Park on July 24, 2010.

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Vancouver medalists in Aichi show

NAGOYA, Japan - Mao Asada of Japan (L) and Evgeni Plushenko of Russia, both silver medalists in the Vancouver Games, perform during a figure skating show at Aichi Expo Memorial Park on July 24, 2010.

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Vancouver medalists in Aichi show

NAGOYA, Japan - Mao Asada of Japan (facing camera) and Evgeni Plushenko of Russia, both silver medalists in the Vancouver Games, perform during a figure skating show at Aichi Expo Memorial Park on July 24, 2010.

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Baby boomers look back at '70, '05 expositions in Osaka, Aichi

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuko Tamamura (R), 59, and her friends, all who worked as a companion in the Japanese government pavilion of Osaka Expo '70, remember the first expo in Japan at the former exhibition site in Suita city, Osaka Prefecture.

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Emperor thanks Aichi Expo organizers

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko (2nd from L), talk to Toyota Motor Corp. Honorary Chairman Shoichiro Toyoda (R), who served as chairman of the Japan Association for the 2005 World Exposition, at the Imperial Palace on Oct. 2. The Imperial couple invited 38 people involved with the expo to express their appreciation for efforts made for the six-month event that closed Sept. 25. At 2nd from right is Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. (Pool photo)

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Aichi Expo ends after 6-month run

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito makes a speech during a grand closing ceremony of the 2005 World Exposition held at the Nagakute main site in Aichi Prefecture on Sept. 25.

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Aichi Expo ends after 6-month run

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito makes a speech during a closing ceremony of the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on Sept. 25.

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Aichi Expo ends after 6-month run

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks during a closing ceremony of the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on Sept. 25.

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Aichi Expo ends Sunday after 6-month run

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Visitors pack the Nagakute main site of the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture as the 185-day event comes to an end on Sept. 25.

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Aichi Expo ends Sunday after 6-month run

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Flags of the countries participating in the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture stand under the blue sky as the 185-day event comes to an end on Sept. 25. The Expo served as a testing ground for new technologies and featuring exhibits like humanoid robots and a frozen mammoth from Siberia.

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Aichi Expo ends Sunday after 6-month run

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Visitors pack the Nagakute main site of the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture as the 185-day event comes to an end on Sept. 25.

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Aichi Expo ends Sunday after 6-month run

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Flags of the countries participating in the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture stand under the blue sky as the 185-day event comes to an end on Sept. 25. The Expo served as a testing ground for new technologies and featuring exhibits like humanoid robots and a frozen mammoth from Siberia.

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Aichi Expo ends Sunday after 6-month run

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Visitors pack the Nagakute main site of the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture as the 185-day event comes to an end on Sept. 25.

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Aichi Expo packed with visitors

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Thai dancers give their performance at the Nagakute site of the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on Sept. 24 during the special events marking the end of the 185-day event on Sept. 25.

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Aichi Expo ends Sunday after 6-month run

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Visitors pack the Nagakute main site of the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture as the 185-day event comes to an end on Sept. 25.

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Aichi Expo packed with visitors

NAGAKUTE, Japan - The Nagakute site of the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture is packed with visitors on Sept. 24, the day before the 185-day event comes to a close. By 4 p.m., 165,908 visitors had entered the Nagakute main site and the adjacent Seto site, bringing the total attendance to 21.76 million.

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Aichi Expo packed with visitors

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Visitors to the World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture enjoy a Bulgarian folk dance performance at the Bulgarian pavilion on Sept. 24, the day before the 185-day event comes to a close.

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Aichi Expo packed with visitors

NAGAKUTE, Japan - The Nagakute main site of the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture is packed with visitors on Sept. 24, the day before the 185-day event comes to an end on Sept. 25.

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Aichi Expo packed with visitors

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Staff employees at foreign pavilions at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture participate in a fashion show held Sept. 24 as part of the special events marking the end of the 185-day event on Sept. 25.

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Int'l Beauty Pageant contestants gather at Aichi Expo

NAGOYA, Japan - Contestants for the Miss International Beauty Pageant 2005 gather at the World Exposition in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on Sept. 21. Some 50 contestants visited the exposition as part of events preceding the Sept. 26 beauty competition in Tokyo.

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Philippine national day at Aichi Expo

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Philippine dancers give their performance during one of events marking their country's national day at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on Sept. 20.

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Shanghai Week begins at Aichi expo

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Teenage Japanese table tennis star Ai Fukuhara (2nd from R) of the Chinese Super League club Liaoning speaks in the Shanghai Week events at the 2005 World Exposition in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on Sept. 19. The Shanghai Week, which began the same day, runs through Sept. 25.

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Record number of people visit Aichi Expo

NAGAKUTE, Japan - A full moon is seen from the Nagakute site of the 2005 World Exposition on Sept. 18. A record number of people for a single day visited the exposition in Aichi Prefecture on the day, reaching 281,441, its organizer said. The previous single-day record was 250,694 set on Sept. 10.

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Number of Expo visitors tops 20 mil.

NAGAKUTE, Japan - People throng the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on Sept. 16, the same day the number of visitors there topped the 20 million mark. The figure surpassed the 15 million targeted by the organizers. The expo ends its six-month run on Sept. 25.

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Papua New Guinea national day events at Aichi Expo

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Dancers from Papua New Guinea perform at the World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on Sept. 16 as part of their country's national day celebrations.

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Aichi expo celebrates Mexico national day

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Dancers perform Mexican dance at the 2005 World Exposition at Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on Sept. 15.

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Congo's national day celebrated at Aichi Expo

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Performances of traditional Congolese dances are featured during the African country's national day events at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on Sept. 14.

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Saudi national day marked at Aichi Expo

NAGAKUTE, Japan - A traditional sword dance performance features an event held to mark Saudi Arabia's national day at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on Sept. 9.

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Aichi expo observes National day for Uganda

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Dancers perform traditional Ugandan dance at the World Exposition in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture on Sept. 7.

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Angola national day at Aichi Expo

NAGOYA, Japan - A traditional dance performance is given during an event held to mark Angola national day at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on Sept. 6.

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Aichi expo observes Vietnam national day

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Vietnamese music is played on the Vietnamese national day at the 2005 World Exposition at Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on Sept. 5.

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Aichi expo observes Vietnam national day

NAGAKUTE, Japan - A fashion show focusing on ethnic Vietnamese clothing is held for the Vietnamese national day at the 2005 World Exposition at Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on Sept. 5.

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Mali national day marked at Aichi Expo

NAGOYA, Japan - A traditional dance performance is given during an event held to mark Mali national day at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on Sept. 1.