Osaka, Japan – Expo 2025 is open to Osaka On Sunday, with more than 10,000 people singhoven’s ninth symphony to celebrate the beginning of a six-month event that Japan will hope to unite the world divided into tensions and wars.
Here’s what to know about Expo 2025 Osaki:
Osaka Expo is held in Yumeshima, which means “Dream Island”, resolved industrial waste in Osaka, where participants from more than 160 countries, regions and organizations show their futuristic exhibitions in about 80 pavili unique architecture.
“The creation of a future society for our lives” is the main theme. It is another exhibition of Osaka after an extremely successful event in 1970. year that attracted 64 million visitors, minutes to Shanghai in 2010. years.
The organizers expect 28 million visitors to mid-October, although ticket sales were dispute, with about 9 million in advance, a short initial goal of 14 million.
“It was 55 years since the last window in Osaka. I look forward to it,” said Daiki Chiba, who traveled from Sendai, about 900 kilometers (560 miles) northeast of Osaka.
Many visitors wore masks for make-mimaku or wore clothes that match his colors – red, blue and white – to make it available.
Expo comes only four years after Japan struggled to tamper the Olympics in Tokyo without an audience during the coronavirus pandemic.
It opens in the echo trade wars and fears from the global economic crash, the US President Donald Trump, three-year-old tariffs aroused Russian Invasion in Ukraine and Conflicts with the Middle East.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba In comparison, global tensions on the “National Crisis” and said that the Trump tariffs would, especially 25% of the cars, whether strokes of all industries and the economy in Japan.
Still, Japan wants to turn a finger in a chance.
“I think the timing is actually pretty good,” said Sachiko Yoshimura, Chief Expo 2025 Global Communications. “Holding EXPO would now be able to help solve divisions in the world. … I believe this exhibition in Japan can actually lead to stronger international relations and improvements.”
The iconic ring, designed architect Sou Fujimoto, structure such as a grill is the surroundings of the place and recognized by Guinness World Records as the largest wooden architecture. It is 20 meters high (65 feet) and has a volume of 2-kilometers (1.2 miles).
The complete ring occupies more than 14% of total expenditure from EXPO from 235 billion yen ($ 1.64 billion) and has launched public criticism.
The total cost almost doubled from the initial assessment to a large extent because of the weaker yen, causing construction delays. Several pavilions, including those from Nepal, India, Vietnam and Chile, were not ready to open.
The ring should be partially repugnant, which reflects the topic of creating a sustainable future.
Exhibitions of top technology, such as robots and flying cars, as well as pop culture such as Hello Kitty and Gundam, are among prominent games.
“The pavilions are all amazing,” Laurel Sylvester from New Zealand, visited with his wife and two children. Her family is interested in the sustainability of the ocean and is planned to visit the dome of the Blue Ocean. She said that the boys were “super excited to have their photo with (great Gundam) a robot and some interesting technical things that happen.”
A small artificial heart made from induced pluripotent stem cells or IPs, the heart rate on the Japanese health pavilion showed. To the future of life pavilion, visitors can communicate with robots. The human washing machine that was a sensation from EXPO from 1970. years returned with high technological converted places.
The American Pavilion is focused on a space trip. His lunar stone from the Apollo 12 mission, the 1970 exhibition sensation. The year was on the screen.
China, also highlights space technology, shows soil samples from their lunar missions.
With a blue face surrounded by red balls, some of them eyeball, mysterious, smiling creature myaku-myaku greets visitors.
The imaginary creature was born from fusion cells and water in a small spring in the Kansai region, organizers say. A friendly but awkward sign can be transformed into various forms and is good in finding a long after rain.
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Yamaguchi reported from Tokyo.
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2025-04-13 11:47:00