Swissinfo: Swiss mountain in Japan nears completion
Switzerland has built a replica mountain as its contribution to the global exhibition, which gets underway next Friday just outside the Japanese city of Nagoya...The Swiss government has spent SFr15 million ($12.9 million) on its presence at the expo in Japan – far less than it has committed to previous global exhibitions. Part of the money was spent on constructing an artificial mountain range, inside which visitors are invited to tour an exhibition and discover the "hidden sides" to Switzerland..."Our aim is to surprise the Japanese. If we had just filled the place with cheese, cows and pictures of Heidi, they would have loved it but nobody would have been surprised," Salchli told swissinfo.
. heidi won't miss it, she's already copied and reanimated 