Expo '75

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Expo '75
Okinawa International Marine Exhibition
Expo'75 logo designed by Kazumasa Nagai in 1972

Expo'75 logo designed by Kazumasa Nagai in 1972

motto "The Sea We Would Like To See"
General
Exhibition space 101.17 ha
Number of visitors 3,485,750
BIE recognition Yes
participation
countries 33 countries
Place of issue
place Okinawa Hontō
terrain Aquapolis coordinates: 26 ° 41 ′ 30 ″  N , 127 ° 52 ′ 30 ″  EWorld icon
calendar
opening 20th July 1975
closure January 18, 1976
Chronological order
predecessor Expo 70
successor Expo 86

The International Ocean Exposition ( Japanese 沖 縄 国際 海洋 博 覧 会 , Okinawa kokusai kaiyō hakurankai , dt. " International Ocean Exhibition Okinawa") with the theme "The Sea We Would Like To See" took place from July 20, 1975 to January 18, 1976 in the city of Motobu on the Japanese island of Okinawa Hontō . It was open for 183 days.

The underwater world exhibition became a milestone in the history of this development. Japan gave an overview of all areas of underwater technology and marine development at an enormous cost. With the great inventiveness of the Japanese, this exhibition was just as unusual and interesting as it was amusing.

construction

Site plan of the Expo'75.
Aquapolis, 1977
Commemorative coins from 1975, 100 yen

The exhibition site was in the city of Motobu, between the two villages of Nakajin and Nago, on the peninsula of the same name , 80 kilometers north of Naha , the largest city in Okinawa.

The exhibition showed the most varied of new technologies for the utilization of the sea and its settlement in 4 areas. The areas were labeled "Ships", "Peoples and History", "Science and Technology" and "Fish".

In addition, a sea ​​city called Aquapolis was built by the Japanese architect Kiyonori Kikutake at a distance of 200 meters from the coast. The construction costs for this amounted to 12.3 billion yen (then around 100 million DM), with the sea city being visited by a little more than 2 million during the exhibition.

Over thirty nations were represented with a booth, including Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Egypt, German Democratic Republic, Guatemala, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Korea, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Philippines, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates , USSR, England, USA and Uruguay.

During the Expo'75 various shows and sailing competitions were held on the nearby beach. The fairgrounds were also the destination of a single-handed sailing regatta that started in San Francisco on September 21, 1975 , as well as a stop on the Los Angeles to Hawaii yacht race . Crown Prince Akihito and his wife Michiko escaped in July 1975 during a visit to Okinawa as part of the Expo on Himeyuri Memorial barely a Molotov - assassination of three left-wing radicals . Both were unharmed.

The Expo'75 was officially approved by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) in Paris as a special exhibition with a focus on "Oceans".

After the end of the event, the area became the "Okinawa State Memorial Park " ( 国 営 沖 縄 記念 公園 , kokuei Okinawa kinen kōen , English Ocean Expo Park ). The Aquapolis was in operation until November 1993 when it was closed due to a sharp drop in visitor numbers. In 2000 it was finally brought to Shanghai for scrapping.

literature

Web links

Commons : Expo 1975  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Time series WJ5014: Exchange rates of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange / 100 JPY = ... DM / Japan. (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bundesbank, archived from the original on March 8, 2012 ; Retrieved August 31, 2010 .
  2. a b ア ク ア ポ リ ス: 漂流 の 果 て の 寂 し い 末路 . Okinawa Times, October 24, 2000, archived from the original September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved August 31, 2010 (Japanese).
  3. ^ Post-Reversion Okinawa and US-Japan Relations (PDF; 2.1 MB), in: US-Japan Alliance Affairs Series , page 72, May 2004