OSAKA – With only four months to go until it must unveil detailed plans for its 2025 World Expo bid, Osaka’s leaders plan to use the rest of the summer and early autumn to ramp up domestic and international efforts to raise the region’s profile and tout its advantages over arch-rival Paris .
Two other bid cities, Ekaterinburg, Russia, and Baku, Azerbaijan, are deemed long shots.
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