Paris welcomes biggest Japan festival in Europe with Osaka as City of the Year

This year, Japan Expo will welcome 900 exhibitors including a booth promoting Osaka 2025 World Expo, which will be held in 2025.

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00:00One of the largest Japanese pop culture conventions in Europe opened its doors on Thursday in

00:08Paris.

00:09From the latest mangas to handcrafted souvenirs, it's the place to be for fans of Japanese

00:14culture with more than 900 exhibitors present this year.

00:18Osaka takes center stage as Japan Expo City of the Year and it also happens to be the

00:24host city for the next World Expo in 2025.

00:29The World Expo is one of the oldest and largest international events held every five years

00:34since 1851 and is a global platform for innovation and collaboration.

00:40The theme for next year is all about designing a future society for our lives.

00:45All the countries and organizations will produce their pavilions and inside the pavilions you

00:51can experience their traditional food, culture, technologies and then also there's going to

00:58be flying cars like latest technologies or AI translation system so people when you go

01:04there you can see what the future is going to be like.

01:07France's pavilion is one of the most anticipated ones.

01:11To all the visitors who will be coming to the France pavilion they will be able to enjoy

01:17an immersive exhibition thought as a romantic stroll through France to discover French heritage

01:25and French culture and the visitor will also be able to enjoy some good French food.

01:31There will be a bakery and also a bistro.

01:35At the Japan Expo in Paris visitors can see some of the featured works that will be exhibited

01:40in France's pavilion in Osaka next year like this tapestry representing a scene from the

01:46legendary Princess Mononoke animation film highlighting our relationship with nature.

01:53It took craftsmen more than one year to weave this tapestry that will be featured at the

01:58entrance of the Osaka World Expo.