Osaka Expo 2025 will be hosted by Japan – co-organized with BIE , BIE is an intergovernmental organization in charge of overseeing and regulating all the international exhibitions that last more than three weeks and are of non commercial nature (Expos”). Today , 4 types of Expos are organised under its auspices: World Expos, Specialised Expos, Horticultural Expos and the Triennale di Milano .
OSAKA Expo 2025
(184 days from April 13 to October 13, 2025)
Theme :Designing Future Society for Our Lives
Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai, “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”, and taking necessary action has become a mission for this age. The international community has devoted serious efforts to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, and these efforts are consistent with the significance of holding the Expo
Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai will provide the world with an opportunity to come together in one place to explore the theme of “life.” This Expo will facilitate interactions between people with diverse values from around the world, resulting in new human networks and creative endeavours. Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai will share hopes for a brighter future with the world by overcoming the current global crisis, protecting people’s lives, and reflecting on life and lifestyles.
Theme
Designing Future Society for Our Lives
The theme, “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”, makes individuals think how they want to live and how they can maximise their potential. This theme also aims to drive co-creation by the international community in designing a sustainable society that supports individuals’ ideas of how they want to live.
In other words, the Expo will ask a straightforward question for the first time: “What is the happy way of life?”. The Expo is taking place at a time when new social challenges, including expanding economic gaps and heightened conflicts, are emerging, while science technologies are evolving, including AI and biotechnology, that will present changes to humankinds, for example, extended life spans.
Saving Lives, Empowering Lives, and Connecting Lives are the three subthemes of the Expo. Japanese culture has long been based on the belief that any material, from all living creatures to even a pebble along the road, has an inherent life. With this in mind, the Expo welcomes the consideration of ‘life’ not just for human beings but also in a broader sense of diverse creations and nature that surround humans.
Saving Lives focuses on protecting lives. This subtheme may be associated for example with countermeasures against infectious diseases through improvement in public health, ensuring safety through disaster readiness and disaster risk reduction initiatives, and harmonious coexistence with nature.
Empowering Lives focuses on enriching the lives of individuals and expanding their potential. Topics related to this may include, for example, high quality remote education through the use of ICT; the extension of a healthy life span through appropriate exercise and diet; and the maximisation of human potential through the use of AI and robotics.
Connecting Lives focuses on getting everyone engaged, building communities and enriching society. This subtheme may relate to subjects including, for example, the power of partnership and co-creation, advanced communications enabled by ICT, and the design of a data-driven society.
The concept of Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai is “People’s Living Lab.” This concept represents the Expo’s approach toward putting its theme into practice and serves as a guideline for the practical implementation of projects. The most distinctive characteristic of the Expo will be the endeavour to give a realistic picture of a future society not just through thought, but also through action. This endeavour is being launched before the Expo, by inviting diverse participants to come together with various initiatives to tackle challenges with solutions that will help achieve the SDGs, either on or off the Expo site.
The Expo site is located in Yumeshima, an artificial island located on the waterfront in Osaka that offers visitors a view of the Seto Inland Sea. The Expo will be promoted as being connected to the world through the surrounding sea and sky, with programmes taking advantage of the site’s location. With an area of 1.55 km2, the venue will have a pavilion area in its centre, with waters in its southern part and greenery in its western part.
