Universal Exposition in Japan to kick off in a year

(ANSA) - Rome, April 15 - Expo 2025 Osaka is scheduled to kick off in the Japanese city in exactly 12 months, on April 13, next year.
    The six-month international fair will register the participation of 160 countries and is expected to attract some 30 million visitors mainly hailing from Japan and Asia. The Japan Association for the World Exposition is celebrating this important anniversary with several events, some of which will be streamed on the official YouTube channels of the organization.
    The live streaming URL is: https://youtube.com/live/DdnyP751IhM From April 13 until the end of May, participating countries will coordinate their Visual Identity with official materials celebrating the One Year To Go anniversary.
    Italy is taking part in the initiative, including with a welcome video message of the Commissioner General for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka, Ambassador Mario Vattani, visible on all of Italy's social media platforms for Expo 2025 Osaka. Following are the links. YouTube: https://youtu.be/AsuQ4NnCs24?feature=shared; Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:71 84818570692804608;Twitter:https://twitter.com/ItalyExpo2025/stat us/1779053617229500790; Facebook: https://fb.watch/rpZifkKRkL/; Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5sYrv2iZhl/?utm_source=ig_web_co py_link "In exactly a year, on April 13, 2025, Expo 2025 Osaka will open", Ambassador Vattani said on Saturday.
    "Last December 19 in Osaka, at the site of Expo, Italy was the absolute first participating nation to start construction" on the Italian Pavilion, he stressed.
    "Our Pavilion will be an extraordinary tool for the diplomacy of growth, an outpost of the Italian System, of our culture, of our territories and of that Italian know how for which we are renowned worldwide.
    "Over the past months we have taken part in events across Italy to get our companies, our universities, our cultural world acquainted with all the opportunities represented by Expo 2025 Osaka, not only in Japan but in all of Asia.
    "On April 15, on the national day of Made in Italy, we will attend Milan's Design Week to present the project of the Italian Pavilion in what has now become the temple of worldwide design.
    "Today, together with all the other participating nations, Italy too is giving you an appointment in Osaka on April 13, 2025", Vattani concluded. (ANSA).