Japan 100 Yen 1970 Expo '70 Commemorative Coin
Item Number: 000079
Price: US$6.00
Japan 100 Yen 1970
World Exposition -- Osaka, Japan 1970
9 grams, 75% Copper, 25% Nickel
Obverse: Mount Fuji
Reverse: Expo '70
Diameter: 28.0 mm
Expo '70 was the first World's Fair held in Japan. It was held in Osaka between March 15 and September 13, 1970. The theme of the Expo was "Progress and Harmony for Mankind." Seventy-seven countries attended the event and 64,210,000 people visited it.
"Expo" is the short form of "Universal Exposition" also known as "World Fair" or "World's Fair". The first Expo was The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London titled “Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations”.
The first official World's Fair in the United States was the Centennial International Exhibition (officially the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Products of the Soil and Mine) of 1876 in Philadelphia celebrating the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. Alexander Graham Bell had just invented the telephone and it was first displayed to the public as a consumer product at the World's Fair of 1876 in Philadelphia.
The Eiffel Tower was built as the entrance arch for the Exposition Universelle of 1889 the World's Fair in Paris, France from May 6, to October 31, 1889, marking the centennial celebration of the French Revolution.
In 1928 the Bureau of International Expositions (French: Bureau International des Expositions) or BIE was established as the governing body of World's Fairs or Universal Expositions which came to be known as "Expo's" in the 1960s.
The Expo is comparable to the Olympic Games in worldwide economic and cultural impact. Since 1988 countries started to use the Expo more widely and more strongly as a platform to improve their national images through their pavilions. | 
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