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Osaka Expo Announces Theme Weeks with SDGs Focus

The 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo unveiled 'Theme Weeks' on global issues aligned with SDGs, urging the active involvement of the private sector and policymakers.

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10 months ago

June 23, 2023

Kohei Inoue

The Japan Pavilion participating in a theme week at the Dubai World Expo on October 1, 2021. (© Sankei by Nobuo Kurokawa)

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The Japan Association for 2025 World Exposition, organizer of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, announced the event's "Theme Weeks" on June 2. Events held each week throughout the event period will explore solutions to global-scale social issues.

Official participants, the government, local governments, exhibiting companies, and others will engage with the eight themes based on the "Designing Future Society for Our Lives" overall theme. Video footage of related programs will be preserved as part of the Expo's legacy.

Theme Weeks Embrace the SDGs

Theme weeks at World Expos are designed to take full advantage of the multi-week event that brings in people from around the world. They were also adopted at the Dubai World Expo, which ran through March 2022 in the United Arab Emirates.

*Japan Pavilion during a theme week at the Dubai World Expo on October 1, 2021. (© Sankei by Nobuo Kurokawa)*

The Osaka-Kansai Expo will feature eight themes. These come under the umbrella of the event's overall theme of "Designing Future Society for Our Lives." All themes embrace the event's objective to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Author: Kohei Inoue