Osaka, Japan (AP) – The 2025 exhibition was opened in Osaka On Sunday, with more than 10,000 people singing the ninth symphony of Beethoven to celebrate the beginning of the six -month event, which Japan hopes to unite the world divided into tensions and wars.
Here is what to know about the 2025 Osaka exhibition:
What is the exhibition 2025 Osaka?
The Osaka exhibition is held at Yumeshima, which means “Dream Island”, a site for burial of industrial waste reclaimed in Osaka Bay, where participants from more than 160 countries, regions and institutions of their future exhibitions display within about 80 buses of unique architecture.
“Creating a future society for our lives” is the main topic. It is the second Osaka exhibition after a very successful 1970 event that attracted 64 million visitors, and it is a record number to Shanghai in 2010.
Organizers expect 28 million visitors until mid -October, although ticket sales were slow, as about 9 million of the initial goal of 14 million people were sold.
“55 years have passed at the last exhibition in Osaka. I was looking forward to it,” said Dikki Chiba, who traveled from Sendai, about 900 km (560 miles) northeast of Osaka.
Many visitors carried my maku-myaku or wearing clothes that match their colors-red, blue and white-with a mood.
What does the exhibition hold in the midst of global tensions?
The exhibition comes just four years after Japan’s struggle to host the non -attached Tokyo Olympics during the Korona virus.
It opens in the wake of commercial wars and fears of the global economic shrinkage raised by the tariff of US President Donald Trump, three years. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and Conflicts in the Middle East.
Prime Minister Shigro Ishiba Comparing global tensions with the “national crisis” and said that the Trump tariff, especially the 25 % service on cars, will be a blow to all Japanese industries and economics.
However, Japan wants to turn a pinch into a chance.
“I think the timing is perfectly suitable,” said Sashiko Yoshimura, President of Expo 2025 Global Communications. “The exhibition holding can now eventually help address the divisions in the world … and I think this exhibition in Japan may actually lead to stronger international relationships and improvement.”
What is the big episode?
The iconic episode, designed by architect Sou Fujimoto, is a structure similar to the network that surrounds the place and that was recognized by Guinness World Records as the largest wooden structure. Its height is 20 meters (65 feet) and contains a perimeter of 2 km (1.2 miles).
The costly episode deals with more than 14 % of the total exhibition spending 235 billion yen (1.64 billion dollars) and has sparked general criticism.
The total cost has almost multiplied from the initial estimate significantly due to the weakest yin, causing the construction delay. Many wings, including those in Nepal, India, Vietnam and Chile, were not ready for the opening.
The loop is supposed to be partially reusable, reflecting the subject of creating a sustainable future.
What are the other prominent points?
It is an exhibition of advanced technology, such as robots and flight cars, as well as pop culture such as Hello Kitty and Gundam, among the prominent points.
“All of the wings look amazing,” said Laurel Sylvester of New Zealand, who is visiting with her husband and two children. Her family is interested in sustaining the oceans and planned to visit the blue ocean dome. She said the boys “are very excited to get their photos with Big Gundam and some interesting technical things that occur.”
A small artificial heart made of the next induced stem stem cells, or IPS, showed the heartbeat in the Japanese health care suite. In the future of a life wing, visitors can interact with robots. A human washing machine was a sense of 1970 with high -tech arrangements.
The US suite focuses on traveling to space. The moon stone appeared from the Apollo 12 mission, a feeling in the 1970 exhibition, shown.
China, which also highlights space technology, displays soil samples of its lunar tasks.
What is Myaku-Myaku?
Thanks to his blue face surrounded by red balls, some of them welcomed the eyes, the mysterious, mysterly smiling creature with visitors.
The organizers give birth that the imaginary creature was born of cells and water integration into a small spring in the Kansay area. A friendly personality, but clumsy can turn into different shapes and are good in finding a rainbow after the rain.
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Yamaguchi mentioned from Tokyo.
