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The site of Expo '70 is now Expo Commemoration Park (万博記念公園, Banpaku kinen-koen?). Almost all pavilions were demolished, and there remain some memorials a part of the roof structure for Festival Place (お祭り広場, O-matsuri hiroba?) designed by Kenzo Tange. Among a few still-intact pieces, the most famous one is the Tower of the Sun (太陽の塔, Taiyō-no tō?) designed by the Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto. The former international art museum pavilion designed by Kiyoshi Kawasaki was used as the building for the National Museum of Art, Osaka until March 2004 (moved to downtown Osaka in November 2004).
Additionally, there is a time capsule that is to be left for 5,000 years and opened in the year 6970. The capsule has been donated by the Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. This World's Fair concept first originated and started with the two Westinghouse Time Capsules which are to be opened in 6939.
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