site.btaPresident Radev Visits Bulgarian Pavilion at EXPO 2025 Osaka

President Rumen Radev visited the Bulgarian pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan on Sunday. The head of State and the delegation led by him for his official visit to the country watched an audio-visual presentation and experience unfolding the theme of contributing to global challenges with a focus on the sub-theme Saving Lives.

Osaka Expo 2025 Commisioner-General Koji HANEDA was also in the Bulgarian pavilion.

May 18 is Bulgaria Day at the World Expo. It will be celebrated with a rich cultural and musical award.

Greetings to those attending the Bulgarian pavilion at the celebration were made by Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency (BSMEPA) Director Boyko Takov, architect Hiroto Kobayashi, who designed Bulgaria's pavilion, and Iskren Krastev, a member of the team behind Bulgaria's concept for its visual presentation

So far, the Bulgarian pavilion has been visited by around 50,000 people, receiving visitors at full capacity every day.

Radev also visited the pavilions of the hosts from Japan, the pavilion of the European Union, Singapore, the Netherlands and others.

The April issue of BTA’s LIK magazine, dedicated to Bulgaria and World Expos and published in Bulgarian, English and Japanese, will be launched in the pavilion before Bulgarian-language students from Japanese universities. BTA Director General Kiril Valchev will host the event, linked live to the agency’s MaxiM hall in Sofia and to 40 BTA press clubs at home and abroad.

Expo 2025 brings together 165 countries and regions and nine international organizations in about 180 pavilions under the theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”. Running from April to October, the fair is expected to draw nearly 30 million visitors.