If, say, I'd booked six tickets with my local number, but took along five friends from overseas, I wonder if there would have been some way to count them.
Doesn't give any indication. I didn't buy tickets, so don't know what information you had to give. For instance, in cases where I bought tickets for visiting friends, or vistors bought tickets and invited me and family along.
The article says Expo organizers worked with overseas influencers with large audiences but this strategy failed. You wonder how blame is being allocated. If booking was ultimately a key point of failure, then it would be hard to know whether marketing fell short in drumming up interest.
It's not stated how the Expo data distinguishes between a foreign visitor from overseas, a Japanese visitor from overseas, and a foreign resident of Japan. Perhaps people who bought tickets will have more insight.
Foreign visitors made up 4% of the 2005 Aichi Expo total. Since then, the overall annual visitor total to Japan has risen over 5 times, so Osaka expected to beat that proportion comfortably. Organizers blame marketing and booking complications.
Osaka Expo says overseas visitors made up 6.1% of the total, which is lower than its projection of 12.4%. By region, 52.6% came from Asia, 22.1% from Europe, and 17.6% from North America. www.sankei.com/article/2025...
No, that baby would be Japanese. For the purpose of this survey, the only time a baby is classified as foreign, with a Japanese parent, is if the mother was a foreigner, and the baby was born out of wedlock. That child could often later be acknowledged by the father, and entitled to be Japanese.
Imaginative new beer name from Kirin, "Good Ale". Sapporo has gone for "Extra Think", which is something you almost certainly don't do when drinking beer.
When Abdulrazak Gurnah won the prize in 2021, there were no Japanese translations of his work. One finally appeared in 2023. At least this year, bookshops can put something on the shelf for László Krasznahorkai.
László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Japanese booksellers have one translation to sell straight away but will have to wait for more. Last year, they had at least five translations of work by 2024 winner Han Kang.
Another mobile battery started smouldering on public transport. This time, inside a plane departing Naha Airport in Okinawa. It was extinguished quickly, and the plane continued on to Haneda. www.okinawatimes.co.jp/articles/-/1...
A Korean actress said on TV that people in Japan would burst out laughing when she introduced herself. Her name is 오나라 which is Oh Na-ra (オ・ナラ, or fart, in Japanese). sportsseoulweb.jp/star_topic/i...
The Nikkei included a table showing areas where the birth rate of foreigners was above the 3% national average. In Tokyo, Kit Ward was highest, at 10.2%. Elsewhere, Warabi in Saitama hit 21.8%, while Kani in gifu was 19.8%
In 2024, over 20,000 babies born in Japan - 3% of the total - were foreigners. This number includes babies born to two non-Japanese parents, and babies born out of wedlock to a foreign mother. www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
A 57 year old man has been arrested for selling bootleg copies of the Osaka Expo Map, which he ran up on a colour copier. Police think he sold 450 since April, for a total of around 110,000 yen. www.yomiuri.co.jp/expo2025/202...
A bear wandered into a supermarket in Numata City, Gunma earlier this evening. Two shoppers were attacked, and one, a 70 year old man, needed hospital treatment for an injury to his arm. The bear ran away. www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/202...
Tokyo reports a record high 10,000 fire ants and 8,000 eggs & pupae were found in three containers shipped over from China to Aomi Terminal. The operator contacted the Ministry of the Environment to arrange extermination. www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/202...
Well, since you ask...there were 2272 cases in total, and it looks like each case had four 5kg bags. The police made a start putting eight 5kg bags on one sheet, so the whole seizure would have needed another 284 blue sheets. Possibly.
