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We were involved in the creation of the pavilion for the 2025 World Expo in Japan.

We were involved in the creation of the pavilion for the 2025 World Expo in Japan.

2025.04.11

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The 2025 World Expo, Japan (hereinafter referred to as the Osaka-Kansai Expo) will open on Sunday, April 13th.
Tanseisha made great strides after achieving success in creating the pavilion for the 1970 World Expo (Osaka), and has since been involved in the creation of numerous pavilions for subsequent world expos.
At this year's Osaka Kansai Expo, in addition to helping with around 10 domestic and international pavilions, as well as retail and Restaurants, we will also be participating in the Future Life Experience exhibition for the first time at an Expo. We would like to introduce the contents of the exhibition, along with some of the pavilions and facilities in which we were involved in creating the space.

News Release
Tanseisha contributes to the creation of the pavilion for the 2025 World Expo in Japan
~ Participating in the Future Life Experience exhibition as the company's first in-house exhibit, and revealing the contents of the exhibit ~

Case Study

"Japanese Government Museum"

Provided by: Trade and Industry

[Employer] Trade and Industry
Exhibition design (Basic Layout, Execution Design), construction, operation:
Japan Pavilion Exhibition Consortium Joint Venture (TANSEISHA Co., Ltd. Co., Ltd.)

"Gas Pavilion Ghost Wonderland"

[Employer] Japan Gas Association
Total Produce and Exhibition Manager: DENTSU INC. Live DENTSU INC.
Display Design & Layout, Display Production & Construction: TANSEISHA Co., Ltd.

"Sushiro Futuristic Expo Store"

[Employer] FOOD & LIFE COMPANIES Co., Ltd.
Design, Layout, Production, Construction, experience content planning and production, Website Design: TANSEISHA Co., Ltd.

About our exhibits

We have become a participating partner of the Future Life Expo "Future Life Experience", part of the Future Society Showcase Project at the Osaka, Kansai Expo. We will be sending out messages for the future at Future Life Village from April 29th (Tuesday, national holiday) to May 5th (Monday, national holiday).

Image of the exhibition booth

Under the theme of "Culture of the Future," our Future Life Experience will raise the "spirituality of traditional Japanese culture" as a "question" and "proposal" for the future, and create a tea ceremony and art exhibition space suited to the present.

The tea ceremony, which developed about 450 years ago, was a "new" format for expressing the essence of Japanese aesthetics at the time. At this tea ceremony, art and craft works by contemporary craft artists will be mixed together in an experiential space that fully engages the five senses, visualizing Japanese aesthetics and spirituality. In addition to exhibiting works, we will also host a tea ceremony experience, so that people from around the world who visit our booth can experience a space that integrates various fields such as crafts and art, tradition and innovation, and artificial and natural, based on Japanese aesthetics.

Exhibition details *Subject to change without notice

Date and Time	April 29, 2025 (Tuesday) - May 4, 2025 (Sunday) 9:00-21:00 Monday, May 5th, 9:00-16:00 *The event will end earlier on Monday, May 5th
Tea ceremony experience date	April 29th (Tuesday), May 2nd (Friday) - May 5th (Monday)
Event time	12:00-18:30 (last entry) *Opening hours will be earlier on Monday, May 5th
How to participate	*Up to 7 people per experience

Comment from Osamu Kobayashi President and Chief Executive Ofcer of Tanseisha

Our company was founded in 1946 and started out by working on interior decorations for department stores. We have also had a strong connection with world expos, and have expanded our business field into space creation since creating the pavilion for the 1970 World Expo (Osaka). We are honored to have been able to support the space creation at this year's Osaka-Kansai Expo, utilizing the knowledge we have cultivated up to now. In addition, for our first in-house exhibition, we will be holding an exhibition on the theme of the future of traditional crafts, which have a high affinity with our business and are used in the various spaces we work on. We hope that visitors will be able to feel our "proposals for a changing society" and "our challenging attitude to open up the future of space and the people who gather there" through this exhibition and our business.

Portrait of Osamu Kobayashi President and Chief Executive Ofcer of Tanseisha

About "B-OWND"

Launched in May 2019, B-OWND is an online market and gallery that handles craft works as the highest form of art that expresses Japanese beauty. By carefully introducing artists and their works, the platform aims to be a place that connects artists and buyers. Artists from a variety of craft genres, including ceramics, lacquer, bamboo, and glass, are participating, from prestigious families that have produced Living National Treasures to young artists active overseas. In addition, B-OWND allows you to purchase works that come with a digital certificate of authenticity via blockchain. The fact that you have purchased a work is recorded semi-permanently, and each individual's aesthetic sense is engraved in the history of art and crafts.