Participants from around the world showcase vision of the future at Osaka Expo

(13 Apr 2025)
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Osaka - 13 April 2025
1. Visitor poses with official Expo mascot Myakumyaku
2. Various of people queueing outside USA Pavilion
3. Various of immersive space experience inside USA Pavilion
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Christian Lachel, designer of the USA Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka:
“Then of course we make that pivot to space, which is a big part, and that's really an echo from the 1970 Expo that was here. Back in (19)69, of course, there was a big program for the United States to go to the moon, and the first time we ever displayed the moon rock and lunar sample here was in 1970 in Osaka. But we wanted to bring that back because, what has happened over the last many years since we've been here? Well, so much has happened in space.”
5. Various of exhibit of a moon rock that was displayed at the 1970 Osaka Expo
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Christian Lachel, designer of the USA Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka:
“World Expos are important because they celebrate the best in humanity and the best of what we can do collectively about the future, and it's always great to look forward. It's always good to look at what we can together.”
7. Exterior of China Pavilion
8. Various of lunar soil samples collected by China's space missions, people
9. Various of exhibits inside China Pavilion
10. Various of exhibits showing different models of androids
11. Various of exhibit of beating lab-grown heart made of iPS cells
12.SOUNDBITE (English) Byron Russel, PR representative for Pasona Natureverse Pavilion:
“This is a bio-engineered heart constructed from something called IPS cells. IPS cells are a type of stem cell, so it's made out of organic material, living cells. And people who come to our pavilions can actually see this heart floating in culture fluid with an actual heartbeat, an actual pulse.”
13. Exhibit of beating lab-grown heart made of iPS cells
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Byron Russel, PR representative for Pasona Natureverse Pavilion:
“So it's still very, very early in development, it's about 3.5 centimeters in diameter, but we are hoping that with the continued development of this kind of technology, one day it could actually be used to potentially replace a failing human heart and save people's lives.”
15. Osaka Expo site, outside of the Grand Ring
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Laurel Sylvester, visitor from New Zealand:
“Just seeing what the other countries have to offer. We're interested… we're going for our first pavilion, actually it's the Blue Ocean Dome one, so we're quite interested in ocean sustainability, especially this one, he loves the ocean.”
17. Various of Gundam statue
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Laurel Sylvester, visitor from New Zealand:
“This morning we looked up that the Gundam statue robot is here. So the boys are super excited to have their photo with the robot and some of the interesting tech things that are going on, definitely.”
19. Various of exhibition of android
STORYLINE:
The Expo 2025 opened in Osaka on Sunday with more than 10,000 people singing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to celebrate the start of the six-month event that Japan hopes will unite the world divided by tensions and wars.

The Osaka Expo is held at Yumeshima, which means “dream island,” a reclaimed industrial waste burial site in the Osaka Bay, where participants from more than 160 countries, regions and organizations showcase their futuristic exhibits inside about 80 pavillons of unique architecture.

“Creating a future society for our lives” is the main theme.


The USA pavilion boasts a space theme.









AP video by Ayaka McGill

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