After 7.8 million Expo tickets, the work that really grew was inserts and repairs
Before waiting for attendance, how to reverse-engineer the Expo’s “minimum print volume” and the margin-bearing steps—using only the association’s published numbers
When people talk about print demand for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, the first question is usually “who won the contract?” But for management decisions, the useful question is “how much gets produced, where does the labor concentrate, and where do ongoing workflows appear?” Using only primary sources from the association, government, and IR materials, this article leaves a method for counting tickets, guides, signs, and official goods as “minimum required quantities.”
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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
According to the association, the cumulative number of tickets sold as of 2025-02-12 is 7,802,862—and the breakdown by ticket type is published.
That breakdown includes, for example, 162,296 opening tickets, 235,762 early-period tickets, and 7,115,661 one-day tickets (super-early discount / early discount).…
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Sources
- expo2025.or.jp（協会公式ニュース） / 2025-02-14
- expo2025kinen.pia.jp（利用規約）
- expo2025.or.jp（協会アーカイブ／コミュニケーションサイト）
- expo2025.or.jp（機運醸成委員会資料PDF）
- expo2025.or.jp（仕様書PDF） / 2024-07-01
- expo2025.or.jp（協会公式ニュース） / 2025-03-28
- jtbpublishing.co.jp（お知らせ）
- expo2025.or.jp（入札結果表PDF）
- expo2025.or.jp（入札公告PDF） / 2024-11-21
- expo2025mlo.jp（2025MLO お知らせ）
- expo2025shop.jp（ガイド）
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