The opening ceremony of the World Expo 2025 was held in the Japanese city of Osaka on Saturday. Themed "Designing Future Society for Our Lives," Japan hopes to bring unity and portray a future society through its ideas of life, the world and the future.

The Osaka Expo is held at Yumeshima, which means 'dream island,' a reclaimed industrial waste burial site in the Osaka Bay, where participants from more than 160 countries, regions and organizations showcase their futuristic exhibits inside about 80 pavillons of unique architecture.