The Japanese city is “beautifying” itself ahead of hosting the World Expo — not by planting flowers, but by banning ...

Ahead of World Expo 2025, Osaka, the host and one of the biggest Japanese cities has completely banned smoking and vaping in ...

As of Jan. 29, the number of advance tickets sold stood at some 7.66 million — about the half of the target number.

A transport terminal for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka is shown to the press on the artificial island of Yumeshima in ...

Tickets for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka are being resold on flea market apps and at some discount ticket stores, ...

Osaka mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama says the ban will make city ‘safe’. Meanwhile the Osaka region is extending a ban on smoking in restaurants.

About one-third of respondents in Japan expressed interest in visiting the World Exposition in Osaka, falling far below the ...

"The World Expo begins in April. We want to welcome many people from all over the world, so we want to make Osaka a city where people feel safe with smoke-free streets," mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama said ...

but the fact that people who get tickets resell them reflects low expectations for the Expo." (Japanese original by Tatsuya Naganuma, Osaka City News Department; and Naomichi Senoo, Osaka Business ...

Osaka will soon host Expo 2025 ... It is also illegal for people under the age of 20 to smoke and buy tobacco. However, throughout Japan, it’s common for airports, train stations and other ...