Japan no stranger to emblem, logo controversies
The Japan Times | Sept. 2, 2015
Incidents related to official emblems for public institutions and events in Japan, like Tuesday’s retraction of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics logo, are nothing new.
In the case of Expo ’70 held in Osaka, the selection committee chose a design from 48 applications in 1966, but the decision was retracted after objections were raised by the organizer’s board of directors, which said the design was too abstract...more...
Science + EXPO = ? (Early logo prototype for the International Science Expo at Tsukuba in 1985)