Saturday was the National Pavilion Day for Japan at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. Tossing aside the usual stage performance, Japan Pavilion Day gave visitors a special welcoming ceremony. What was it all about? Let´s take a look.
The Shanghai World Expo, is marking the Japan National Pavilion Day. Dubbed the Purple Silkworm Island, the pavilion is covered with solar cells and other environmentally friendly technology.
The Japan Pavilion is proving quite popular at the World Expo Park, but the country´s Corporate Pavilion is also a hot attraction.
Perhaps there´s no better way to describe cutting edge Japanese technology, than "jaw dropping." The nation is known for consumer electronics, automobiles, and multi-tasking robots.
Covering about 6,000 square meters that´s nearly the size of a football field, Japan Pavilion is one of the biggest at the World Expo.
On January 20, the Japanese Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 held a press conference at the Shanghai World Expo Coordination Bureau. A publicity video in which Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama delivered a speech and more than 40 new high technologies to be showcased at the pavilion were unveiled for the first time.
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama may pay a visit to Nanjing, capital of east China´s Jiangsu province this June, as part of the two countries´ efforts to promote ties.
A message of friendship and eco-protection is expected to come from the Japan Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo next May. A musical about the joint efforts of China and Japan to save the red ibis is set to be staged.
Japan has started recruiting up to 150 staff for its World Expo 2010 pavilion.