The only subway line serving the 2025 World Expo in Osaka was suspended late Wednesday due to a power outage, leaving many visitors stranded inside the venue and delaying the expo’s opening the following day.

Anar Alakbarov, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan and Commissioner General for Expo 2025, who is currently on a visit to Japan, met with Yoshitaka Ito, Japan’s Minister of State for Regional Revitalization and Minister for the World Expo 2025.