2025 Osaka
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Overview
BIE-classUniversal exposition
CategoryInternational Registered Exhibition
NameEXPO 2025
MottoDesigning Future Society for Our Lives
Area155 hectares (383 acres)[1]
Visitors28 million (projected)
Organized byHiroyuki Ishige (secretary general)
Location
CountryJapan
CityOsaka
VenueYumeshima Island, Konohana-ku
Coordinates34°39′12.7″N 135°23′11.1″E / 34.653528°N 135.386417°E / 34.653528; 135.386417
Timeline
Bidding22 April 2017 (2017-04-22)
Awarded23 November 2018 (2018-11-23)
Opening13 April 2025 (2025-04-13)
Closure13 October 2025 (2025-10-13)
Universal expositions
PreviousExpo 2020 in Dubai
NextExpo 2030 in Riyadh
Specialized expositions
PreviousExpo 2023 in Buenos Aires (cancelled)
NextExpo 2027 in Belgrade
Horticultural expositions
PreviousExpo 2022 in Almere
NextExpo 2027 in Yokohama
Internet
Websitewww.expo2025.or.jp/en/

Expo 2025 (2025年日本国際博覧会, 2025-nen Nippon kokusai hakurankai) is an upcoming World Expo organised and sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which will be held in Osaka, Japan. It will take place for six months during 2025, opening 13 April 2025 and closing 13 October 2025.[2] This will be the third time Osaka hosts a World Expo, having previously hosted Expo 1970 and Expo 1990. The event will return to its traditional 5-year scheduling cycle after the Expo 2020 was delayed to 2021 and 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] The projected visitor count is approximately 28 million.[2]

Theme

The theme for the expo is "Designing Future Society for Our Lives", with sub-themes of "Saving Lives", "Empowering Lives" and "Connecting Lives".[4] The theme "Saving Lives" includes infant vaccinations, sanitation, lifestyle (diet and exercise) and extending lifespans.[4]

Transportation

An extension of the Osaka Metro Chuo Line is planned from its current terminus at Cosmosquare Station using the Yumesaki Tunnel.[5]

Participants

Withdrew

International Organizations

Pavilions

The Expo will be held on an artificial island called Yumeshima, located in Osaka Bay, with a view of the Seto Inland Sea. The Pavilion area will be located in the Expo's centre, with waters in the southern part and greenery in the western part of the expo.[11] The following countries will have pavilions present at the Expo:

Nordic Pavilion

Directors

The directors of the expo were announced on 23 May 2019 and include Hiroyuki Ikeda, Kengo Sakurada, Hirofumi Yoshimura (Governor of Osaka), and Ichirō Matsui (Mayor of Osaka), with Hiroyuki Ishige as the secretary general, and Hiroyuki Takeuchi and Manatsu Ichinoki acting as vice secretaries general.[12]

The current Chairman and Representative Director of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition is Masakazu Tokura, Chairman of the Japan Business Federation. He has been the Chairman and Representative Director of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition since June 2021.[13]

Bidding, selection and ratification of Expo city

Ratification

The registration dossier for Japan's expo containing a detailed plan with proposed operational dates (13 April to 13 October 2025) and legacy plans has been submitted to the BIE for review.[14]

Candidates

On 22 November 2016, France submitted to the BIE its candidature to host World Expo 2025.[15] This first submission launched the bidding process for this Expo by opening the candidate list. All other countries wishing to organise World Expo 2025 had until 22 May 2017 to submit their own bids, after which the project examination phase started.

  • Azerbaijan Baku, Azerbaijan – The Azerbaijani capital entered its candidacy before the deadline[16] under the theme "Developing Human Capital, Building a Better Future".
  • Japan Osaka, Japan – Osaka made its official bid for the Expo on 24 April 2017[17] with the theme "Designing Future Society for Our Lives".[18]
  • Russia Yekaterinburg, Russia – The Russian city entered its candidacy on 22 May 2017[19] under the theme "Changing the World: Innovations and Better Life for Future Generations".

Withdrawn candidates

  • France Paris, France – France, which had been the first to declare its candidacy[20] under the theme "Sharing our Knowledge, Caring for our Planet," withdrew its candidacy on 21 January 2018 due to financial concerns[21].

Vote

A secret ballot took place to select the winner at BIE's 164th General Assembly on 23 November 2018. The first ballot awarded 85 votes to Osaka, 48 votes to Yekaterinburg and 23 votes to Baku, which meant that Baku was eliminated. The second round ballot resulted in 92 votes for Osaka and 61 for Yekaterinburg.[22]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Site".
  2. 1 2 "Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition". Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  3. ↑ "Osaka Is World Expo 2025 Host | JAPAN Forward". Japan Forward. 23 November 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition". Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  5. ↑ Master Plan (PDF). p. 94.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 "Confirmed Participants for the Expo2025".
  7. ↑ "2025年大阪世博 台灣可望以企業名義參展 - Rti央廣".
  8. ↑ "Pavilions for private sectors".
  9. 1 2 "Mexico, Estonia withdraw from 2025 World Expo: Japan minister". Kyodo News. 14 November 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  10. ↑ "Russia withdraws from 2025 World Expo in Japan". Kyodo News. 29 November 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  11. ↑ "Expo 2025 Osaka". www.bie-paris.org. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
  12. ↑ "Appointment of Directors | Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition". Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  13. ↑ "TOKURA Masakazu Appointed as New Chairman and Representative Director". Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition. 16 June 2021. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  14. ↑ "Japan submits Expo 2025 Registration Dossier to BIE". Retrieved 22 March 2010.
  15. ↑ Jérôme, Béatrice (22 November 2016). "La France candidate à l'Exposition universelle de 2025". Le Monde.fr (in French). ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  16. ↑ "Baku bids for World Expo 2025". azernews.az. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  17. ↑ "Osaka launches formal bid to host 2025 World Expo". www.mainichi.jp/english/. Archived from the original on 28 April 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  18. ↑ "Japan submits bid for World Expo 2025". www.bie-paris.org. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  19. ↑ "World Expo 2025". www.bie-paris.org. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  20. ↑ "World Expo 2025". www.bie-paris.org. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  21. ↑ "France drops bid to host 2025 World Expo". Reuters. 21 January 2018.
  22. ↑ "Japan elected host country of World Expo 2025".
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