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World Exposition in Osaka

Jun Takashina, deputy secretary general of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, meets the press in Osaka on Sept. 15, 2025. The association said more than 200 thousand people per day visited the expo between Sept. 12 to 14, as its Oct. 13 closure approaches.

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Cultural awards

TOKYO, Japan - Recipients of Japan's Order of Culture pose for photos after receiving the awards at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2012. From L are art critic Shuji Takashina, film director Yoji Yamada, international law scholar Shigeru Oda, Japanese-style painter Toshio Matsuo, plant cell and molecular biology authority Yasuyuki Yamada and Nobel Prize in medicine laureate Shinya Yamanaka.

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Japan culture award

TOKYO, Japan - Art critic Shuji Takashina is pictured in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2012. He was selected on Oct. 30 among the six recipients of the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, for the year.