Man uses 85-year-old expo ticket

A man was admitted to the World Expo in Japan with a ticket to a 1940 event that was called off as war escalated, organisers said.

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Tickets for the "Grand Interna-tional Exposition of Japan" in Tokyo were released in 1938 but the event was postponed indefinitely as Japan became embroiled in World War II.

Organisers of Expo 2025 in the western city of Osaka, which opened last month and runs until mid-October, said in a statement they had decided to admit holders of tickets to the 1940 event.