Osaka Expo 2025
Plan to use historic stones to build restrooms for the 2025 Expo draws criticism
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Master Blaster
Feb 14, 2024 - Tweet
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Osaka Expo nightmare-fuel mascot needs name, organisers ask for suggestions and Twitter delivers
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Katie Pask
May 1, 2022
The mascot, described as aggressively disgusting, is currently without a name to call it by.
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