Japan unveils its Pavilion for Expo 2025 Japan

Oki Sato, the Japanese designer and architect who designed the cauldron at the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020, oversaw the pavilion design.

The three-story building will be made of cross-laminated timber that will be reused after the World Expo.

The Japan Pavilion, with its circular structure, embodies the cycle of life and stands as a distinct presence, befitting the host country's pavilion.
Its distinguishing feature is a great circle of innumerable wooden planks. Peering between them, visitors can glimpse the interior, connecting the outer and the inner through exhibits and architecture, inspiring an understanding of what lies “between” part of the pavilion's theme ("Between Lives”).

These planks, mainly composed of cross-laminated timber (CLT), have been designed to be easily disassembled for reuse in buildings across Japan after the Expo is over.