The Fifth National Industrial Exhibition was held in Osaka in 1903. It was the first to be open to foreign exhibitors, and twice the size of previous National Industrial Exhibitions.
Summary
The fair ran from 1 March 1903 until 31 July,
with formal opening by the
emperor
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on 20 April.
It was held in the location now occupied by
Tennōji Zoo
is a 11-hectare (27-acre) zoo located at Tennōji Park in Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan, opened on January 1, 1915. It is the third zoo to be built in Japan and is located southwest of the Shitennō-ji temple, the first Buddhist temple in Japan.
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Tennōji Park
The is a park with botanical garden at 1–108, Chausuyama-cho, Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan.
Establishments
*Tennoji Zoo
*Osaka Municipal Museum of Art
*Greenhouse
*Keitakuen
*Chausuyama Tomb
Tenshiba Area
Restaurants, cafes, ...
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There were 4,350,693 visitors; 959,516 additionally visited the aquarium, which cost extra.
This was the largest event held in Japan to date.
The buildings were destroyed after the fair, and the
Tennōji Park
The is a park with botanical garden at 1–108, Chausuyama-cho, Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan.
Establishments
*Tennoji Zoo
*Osaka Municipal Museum of Art
*Greenhouse
*Keitakuen
*Chausuyama Tomb
Tenshiba Area
Restaurants, cafes, ...
established there.
Participants
The 47 Japanese prefectures all participated, as did 16 counties and colonies.
Countries included
Belgium,
China,
France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Pavilions
In the entertainment section, there was a theatre, a tower with a lift, a ''Mystery Building''
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and a two storey wooden ''Human Pavilion''. The Human Pavilion exhibited
Ainu
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**Ainu language of Hokkaido
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and
Korean
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People and culture
* Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula
* Korean cuisine
* Korean culture
* Korean language
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**Korean dialects and the Jeju language
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people, in addition to people from Africa, India and the Malay peninsula, who cost 10
sen
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Surname
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Currency subunit
* Etymologically related to the English word ''cent''; a hundredth of the following currencies:
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more to attend.
The Aichi prefecture building was built to look like a castle.
The Formosan pavilion aimed to celebrate Japanese colonial rule, but it wasn't of much interest to Japanese people.
Two buildings were moved from the island to provide a shrine of Prince Kitashirakawa and a Bugaku dance stage.
External links
Aichi prefecture pavilion
References
{{List of world's fairs of East Asia
World's fairs in Osaka
1903 in Japan
Events in Osaka