The Japanese city of Osaka was selected Friday to host the World Exposition in 2025, beating Ekaterinburg in Russia and the Azerbaijani capital Baku, as it pledged to focus on designing a future society with the help of health and medical technologies.It will be the second time that Osaka Prefecture, in western Japan, hosts the event. The 1970 World Expo was held there and attended by around 64 million people, the second most in history after the Shanghai Expo in 2010.Osaka beat Ekaterinburg in the final run-off with 92 votes from member countries of expo's governing body, the Bureau Intern…READ FULL ARTICLE