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Pikachu and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appear in 2025 World Expo Bid Video

Forkball

Forkball

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And you thought Smash was the crossover of the century.
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Osaka is currently bidding for the right to hold the BIE World Expo in 2025. They're up against the Russian Federation (in Ekaterinburg), and Azerbaijan (in Baku). Yeah they're gonna win.

ANYWAYS, they submitted their official bid yesterday. The most relevant to gaming side is this video detailing the expo hall they plan to build if they win, guided by Pikachu and various other Pokemon. It is unknown if actual Pokemon will be present at the event in 2025. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears to deliver a message in crippling slow English when *gasp* PIKACHU. The video is better than my description, just watch it.

The host will be announced on November 23rd.
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MMarston

MMarston

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Forkball said:
Osaka is currently bidding for the right to hold the BIE World Expo in 2025. They're up against the Russian Federation (in Ekaterinburg), and Azerbaijan (in Baku). Yeah they're gonna win.
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Those two were always gonna lose, even if they did win.

For years, the Kazakh organizers had been quietly ramping down the tallies of expected attendees at the three-month event; 5 million, 3 million, now 2 million. On opening day, the official figure was 10,000 visitors, and even that was a generous rounding-up. The next day, the crowds were even barer. In the Chinese pavilion, a CGI video showed a fly-through of busy Expo grounds; outside the street was empty save for a janitor having a smoke. Come dinner time, the empty plastic tables and giant windows of the second floor of the food court gave it the air of a provincial airport at 2 am.
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Marufuku

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This isn't so surprising after Abe turned into Mario at the Olympics...


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Also, Abe had some nice things to say about Nintendo in the past:


"Earlier today, a member of the Diet asked him for his growth strategy for Japan.​

"Well, for example, there's a company called Nintendo," Abe replied. "Over there, they made hanafuda cards, but gradually the people playing hanafuda decreased. However, that company called Nintendo makes hanafuda cards and whatnot, and I believe that only by doing that, it wasn't able to protect hanafuda."​

So, Abe continued, Nintendo used technical expertise to lead the way in developing home video game consoles. "And at the same time, it is keeping the traditional hanafuda cards. For sure, I think this is something that we can learn from."​


https://kotaku.com/japanese-prime-minister-thinks-country-can-learn-from-1535090225/amp
 
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lvl 99 Pixel

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great, now more people will hate on my favourite pokemon
"celebrate diversity" with Shinzo Abe...
 
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