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One of the largest wooden structures ever built is taking shape in Osaka, but hopes that Expo 2025 will unite the world are being dogged by cost blowouts and a lack of public enthusiasm.Expo 2025 global PR director Sachiko Yoshimura maintained that global participants would be "united" by the event even though there are conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere.

One of the largest wooden structures ever built is taking shape in Osaka, but hopes that Expo 2025 will unite the world are being dogged by cost blowouts and a lack of public enthusiasm. The imposing circular centerpiece will be crowned by a 20-metre-high (65-foot) sloping canopy, designed by top architect Sou Fujimoto, known as the "Grand Roof". It has a circumference of a staggering two kilometers and 161 countries and territories will show off their trade opportunities and cultural ...

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GlobalCapital GlobalCapital: How did you adjust your funding plans — and your business strategy — in response to the pandemic? Yoshitaka Hidaka, JBIC: Needless to say, the pandemic affected JBIC’s funding strategy as well as our business strategy in a significant way. Let me go back to our funding plan in February 2020. At that time, which was around when Covid began to spread, we were planning a bond issue. Because of the increase in market volatility, we decided not to go ahead and ins...

JAPAN SENDING POWERFUL DELEGATION TO PNG JUBILEE Submitted by admin on Mon, 09/11/2000 - 00:00 PORT MORESBY, Papua News Guinea (September 9, 2000 - Papua New Guinea Post-Courier/PINA Nius Online)---A powerful member of the Japanese Parliament will lead a delegation for the Silver Jubilee celebrations this week. The Chairman of the National Events Council Peter Barter said Kosuke Ito, Chief Delegate Member of the House of Representatives and a former State Minister, will lead the group...