ROME, Dec. 25, 2023 /ANSA=KYODO JBN

‘Expo Osaka is an opportunity to strengthen the Italy Japan strategic partnership’-

Just a few days after the official ceremony for the inauguration of the Italian Pavilion worksite, Commissioner General for Italy at Expo Osaka 2025 Mario Vattani met the Minister for the Universal Exposition Hanako Jimi in Tokyo on Friday.

Italy is the first participant nation to have opened its worksite and is set to be the only one to start work before the end of 2023.

Minister Jimi expressed her satisfaction on the start of work on the Italy Pavilion, stressing the positive value of this news, which has taken on special significance in the light of the difficulties linked to supply chain disruption and rising cost of construction material.

During the meeting the Commissioner General showed a model of the Italy Pavilion designed by Italian architect Mario Cucinella, and illustrated the key themes that inspired the concept of the Italian pavilion - putting the person back at the centre of technological development.

Minister Jimi praised the attention that Italy’s project devotes to the very young within the exhibition itinerary. The exhibition will be divided in three main areas dedicated to universe, society and the individual. These areas allow us to address models of excellences that Italy develops: digital education, diet/food education and examples of technological development of our production sectors.

Part of the Italy Pavilion's permanent exhibition will be dedicated to an immersive show on the development of Italian aerospace technology, one of the flagship sectors in which scientific and economic cooperation between Italy and Japan is growing.

Both concluded that Expo2025 will be an important opportunity to strengthen the strategic partnership launched in January 2023 by Premier Giorgia Meloni and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida.

Source: General Commissioner’s Office of Italy for Expo 2025 Osaka