{"id":71638,"date":"2025-05-08T14:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/08\/japan-world-expo-2025-with-1940-ticket"},"modified":"2025-05-08T14:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:09:13","slug":"man-admitted-to-japans-2025-world-expo-with-85-year-old-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71638","title":{"rendered":"Man admitted to Japan\u2019s 2025 World Expo with 85-year-old ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collector of Expo memorabilia had a ticket to the 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan, which was postponed indefinitely due to the war<\/p>\n<p>A man was admitted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/12\/japans-world-expo-a-positive-vision-of-the-future-for-our-divided-world\">World Expo in Japan <\/a>using a ticket to the 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan, an event that was called off as war escalated, organisers said.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the Grand International Exposition of Japan in Tokyo were released in 1938 but the event was postponed indefinitely as Japan became embroiled in the second world war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/08\/japan-world-expo-2025-with-1940-ticket\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collector of Expo memorabilia had a ticket to the 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan, which was postponed indefinitely due to the warA man was admitted to the World Expo in Japan using a ticket to the 1940 Grand International Exposition of Ja&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-71638","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\/71638","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71639,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71638\/revisions\/71639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}