{"id":22106,"date":"2020-08-27T14:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T05:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/27\/tomatoes-a-scrunchie-japan-perplexed-by-osaka-world-expo-logo"},"modified":"2020-08-27T14:01:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T05:01:45","slug":"tomatoes-a-scrunchie-japan-perplexed-by-osaka-world-expo-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22106","title":{"rendered":"Tomatoes? A scrunchie? Japan perplexed by Osaka World Expo logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Design comprises an imperfect ring made up of a dozen bouncing red blobs \u2013 some with googly eyes <\/p>\n<p>It is supposed to symbolise the \u201cbrilliance of life,\u201d but among social media users in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>, the newly unveiled logo for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expo2025.or.jp\/en\/\">2025 World Exposition<\/a> in the city of Osaka was an unmissable opportunity to poke a fun at the eccentricity of modern art.<\/p>\n<p>The cell nucleus design, chosen from a shortlist of five, comprises an imperfect ring made up of a dozen \u201cbouncing red blobs \u2013 some with googly eyes \u2013 in the approximate shape of the western Japanese city, which will host the Expo for the first time since 1970.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/27\/tomatoes-a-scrunchie-japan-perplexed-by-osaka-world-expo-logo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design comprises an imperfect ring made up of a dozen bouncing red blobs \u2013 some with googly eyes It is supposed to symbolise the \u201cbrilliance of life,\u201d but among social media users in Japan, the newly unveiled logo for the 2025 World Exposition in the c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22107,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22106\/revisions\/22107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}