百万人

That's a lot of people. Each day we do around 10k - 12k (however this is only around 10% of the visitors to bampaku). we move them pretty decently through... depending upon the time of day, weather, etc. we'll have upwards of 270 in each the main show, pre-show, and post show, and another 150 pre-queued into "wheat field" at any given time.
anyway, this whole deal was laughably gimmicky. actually, we were going to hold the celebration yesterday - but we wanted to "make sure" that we hit the number when we went to the press - you know, just in case those Expo regulators are watchin' our numbers with keen eyes.
so, the plan was to hold the press conference at around 15:00 and then show our guests up to a pleasant reception in the Franklin Suite. as you may or may not know it is monsoon season in Japan now (it came late this year); so of course characteristically it is raining pretty hard. at 13:30 we begin scanning the rainy queue (which at this point in the day is wrapped all the way around the Global Common 2 stage) for our "1 millionth visitor." since we'll be doing the whole press/photo-op piece, we are looking for a camera-friendly family (mom, dad, couple of kids with fresh faces). ha haa ha, yeah, that's right. anyway - THAT wasn't my job...
we picked them at the end of the queue, so that when the made it to the front of the Pavilion it was 1500 and Yomiuri, Expo Paper, et al were all ready to go.

We bring 'em up to the Franklin suite to enjoy refreshments (ice cream, cola, juice, coffee, muffin, jelly beans, and pretzels!), and meet AICHI USA CEO Doug West, Pavilion Director Bernard Teresco, and one of the guide teams (C). we hand them certificates, multiple expo passes, grant them honorary VIP status, and a host of praise. Doug is being all ceremonial about the whole thing - and the rest of the staff is expecting to really overwhelm our 1 Millionth visitor. Meanwhile, the kids are crazy - the boy is flopping around all over the furniture, spinning the glass globe - i'm just waiting for it to break. the girl is in a pissy mood - maybe because of the rain or maybe for different reasons altogether.
"We'd like to have you enjoy some ice cream. How does that sound? You can have as much as you'd like!"

"... We already ate. And besides, ice-cream is too cold."
CEO doesn't speak Japanese though, so he hears "no thanks, but coffee would be nice." turns out they drove 4hours to come to bampaku today - and lucky them, now they are obligated to come back next month for some other sort of party/reception we'll be holding for them. America-kan isn't done with you yet!