Photos: Osaka Expo 2025 (27 photos)

The 2025 Osaka World Exposition opened over the weekend, featuring more than 150 pavilions from countries, regions, and groups around the world. The theme of Osaka Expo 2025 is “Designing Future Society for Our Lives,” with exhibits and features focusing on technological innovation, sustainable development, and the benefits of global cooperation. Planners are expecting more than 28 million visitors over the exposition’s six-month run. Gathered below, some of the scenes from Osaka, on and before opening day. To receive an email notification every time new photo stories are published, sign up here. A view of a display inside the Kuwait Pavilion, as it opened to the press at Yumeshima, the venue for Expo 2025 Osaka, in Japan, on April 9, 2025. ( Yukia Watanabe / The Yomiuri Shimbun / Reuters)

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Photos: Osaka Expo 2025 (27 photos)

The 2025 Osaka World Exposition opened over the weekend, featuring more than 150 pavilions from countries, regions, and groups around the world. The theme of Osaka Expo 2025 is “Designing Future Society for Our Lives,” with exhibits and features focusing on technological innovation, sustainable development, and the benefits of global cooperation. Planners are expecting more than 28 million visitors over the exposition’s six-month run. Gathered below, some of the scenes from Osaka, on and before opening day.

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A view of a display inside the Kuwait Pavilion, as it opened to the press at Yumeshima, the venue for Expo 2025 Osaka, in Japan, on April 9, 2025. ( Yukia Watanabe / The Yomiuri Shimbun / Reuters)