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Malek Fouda

Osaka Expo 2025 opens with Beethoven's 9th Symphony and futuristic exhibits

The Expo 2025 opened in Osaka on Sunday with more than 10,000 people singing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to celebrate the start of the six-month event that Japan hopes will unite the world divided by tensions and wars.

The Osaka Expo will be held at Yumeshima, which means "Dream Island", a reclaimed industrial waste burial site in the Osaka Bay. Participants from more than 160 countries, regions and organisations showcase their futuristic exhibits inside about 80 pavilions of unique architecture.

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