X JAPAN to play as opening act at May 2010 Shanghai World Expo
Jun 1st 2009

According to Sanspo, YOSHIKI let it be known, in an interview that he gave the paper after the Taiwan live, that they had recieved an offer from the organizers of the event to appear there as the opening act, something that he called "arigatai hanashi," something to be grateful for. Details such as the actual location for the live are still unavailable, but the Shanghai Expo is expected to be the largest to date, with an estimated 230 countries and regions attending. It also is expected to beat the until now unbroken visitor record of the 1970 Osaka Expo of 64 million visitors to exceed 70 million.

Apparently, progress has also been made on the matter of X JAPAN playing at the Beijing "Bird Nest," though details are still unavailable on that as well.

As far as other lives outside Japan are concerned, YOSHIKI said he thinks that arrangements for lives in France and the US should be finalized in June, with further progress also having been made regarding lives in Thailand and Korea.

Not mentioned in the sanspo article is that for YOSHIKI personally to open the Shanghai World Expo would be the second time to do that, after his first time at the Aichi Expo in Japan in 2005, for which he also wrote the opening song.

Source: http://www.bxte.info/BXtE.html