USA Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka
In collaboration with the U.S. Department of State’s International Expositions Unit, Meridian International Center is proud to lead a delegation of U.S. cultural performers and expert speakers at the USA Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka. From April to October 2025, these artists, creators, and thought leaders will represent the United States at the world’s largest public diplomacy event in the Indo-Pacific region. Through visual arts, music, dance, and multimedia, our delegation is connecting global audiences with the dynamic spirit of American culture.
This program is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State and is implemented by Meridian International Center.
Learn more about the USA Pavilion at Expo 2025About Expo 2025
The six-month long Expo 2025 Osaka marks the return of the World Expo to Japan 20 years after the Aichi Expo 2005 and is expected to attract over 28 million visitors. Expo will run from April 13 to October 13, 2025. This will be the third time Osaka hosts a World Expo and the sixth time Japan hosts a World Expo. Expo is returning to Japan, 55 years after Japan and Asia’s first ever World Expo, the Osaka Expo 1970. The theme of Expo 2025 is “Designing Future Society for Our Lives.” The Expo’s subthemes are “Saving Lives,” “Empowering Lives,” and “Connecting Lives.”
About Meridian International Center
Meridian International Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan diplomacy center that has worked for over 60 years to connects leaders through culture and collaboration to drive solutions for complex challenges facing their organizations, communities, and countries with the vision that greater understanding and collaboration between the U.S. and the world leads to a more secure, prosperous future. The Meridian Center for Cultural Diplomacy is the leading center in the U.S. that employs the arts and culture as a tool of diplomacy and cross-cultural understanding. We work in partnership with the U.S. Department of State, our American embassies abroad as well as the diplomatic community here in Washington, DC, to develop and curate exhibitions, exchanges and programs that range from film screenings to mural arts programs to music performances. Our programs have reached millions of people in more than 310 cities in at least 80 countries worldwide.
About the International Expositions Unit
The Department of State is responsible for U.S. participation in international exhibitions. The Department’s Expo Unit in the Office of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Office of Policy, Planning, and Resources, created in 2017, manages U.S. engagement with the Bureau of International Expositions (BIE), organizes U.S. participation at overseas Expos (also known as World’s Fairs), and mobilizes international support for U.S. candidacies to host Expos.