The 2025 Japan World Expo - Osaka, Kansai, Japan is currently in the bidding process to take place in Yumeshima, Osaka, May 3rd, 2025 until November 3rd, 2025. The theme of the 2025 world expo for Japan's bid is Designing Future Society for Our Lives with a subtopic of How to Lead a Healthy Life in a Diverse Manner Sustainable Socioeconomic Systems. Over 28 million people from around the world are expected to attend the expo in Japan. Currently, Baku, Azerbaijan, Osaka, Japan and Yekaterinburg, Russia are in the bidding for the 2025 world expo.

To help promote the expo and the bidding process, the expo committee has teamed up with Pokémon to help make people aware of it. The Government of Japan and the 2025 Japan World Expo Committee jointly made their third presentation before member countries of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) attending the BIE General Assembly held in Paris on June 13, 2018, as a part of the bid to host the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Kansai Region.

Pokémon Expo Type Check

The 2025 Japan World Expo has launched a Pokémon Expo Type Check site. Visitors to the site can find out which Expo type they are and receive a Pokémon-themed supporter's certificate.

Shoko-tan and Nicole Fujita are featured prominently on the site as "Professors". They also made an appearance at a press conference to promote Pokémon's role in helping to win the bid for Japan.

YouTube Clip - Video clip for Japan’s concept for the exposition

YouTube Clip - Pokémon Press Conference featuring Shoko-tan and Nicole Fujita

Sources: https://pokemon-expo2025.jp/ and https://www.expo2025-osaka-japan.jp/en/