Speaker: Leonard Schoppa, Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia. When Osaka hosted Expo1970, Japan had built its cities big and fast. Tokyo and Osaka were two of the world’s most populous cities, powered by large-scale industrialization and connected by a bullet train that moved faster than any train on the planet. Today, as Osaka prepares to host Expo2025, it calls for a “human-centered society” that...