{"id":71016,"date":"2025-04-13T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/12\/japans-world-expo-a-positive-vision-of-the-future-for-our-divided-world"},"modified":"2025-04-13T00:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:00:49","slug":"japans-world-expo-a-positive-vision-of-the-future-for-our-divided-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71016","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s World Expo: a positive vision of the future for our divided world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-five years since Osaka last hosted, rocks from Mars, domestic androids and artificial hearts are part of showcase on \u2018unloved\u2019 island<\/p>\n<p>As clunky as it sounds, \u201cdesigning a future society for our lives\u201d isn\u2019t a bad ambition for the world in these troubled times. From this Sunday, organisers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expo2025.or.jp\/en\/\">2025 Exposition<\/a> in Osaka will be hoping that appeal will put the event\u2019s unsettled preparations in the shade for a six-month celebration of our common humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The western Japan city is preparing to host its second World Expo, 55 years after the first was held in a country eager to capitalise on fading memories of the second world war as it embarked on its postwar journey to become an industrial and technological powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/12\/japans-world-expo-a-positive-vision-of-the-future-for-our-divided-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-five years since Osaka last hosted, rocks from Mars, domestic androids and artificial hearts are part of showcase on \u2018unloved\u2019 islandAs clunky as it sounds, \u201cdesigning a future society for our lives\u201d isn\u2019t a bad ambition for the world in these tr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"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":[41,71,88,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-japan","category-technology","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71016","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71017,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71016\/revisions\/71017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}