On October 4th, 2023, Sumitomo Group announce the “Sumitomo Pavilion” at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai. The Sumitomo Pavilion will offer an interactive experience that introduces different stories of life in the forest and a “plant-a-tree experience” open to every visitor in hopes of sustaining people’s interest toward the social and environmental issues that we face today.
The design of the Sumitomo Pavilion is inspired by the “peaks of Besshi mountains in Shikoku, Japan”, the foundation of Sumitomo’s growth, and features a silhouette of its mountain wide shape.
Trees from the “Forests of Sumitomo”, owned by the Sumitomo Group, will be used throughout the pavilion’s architecture construction. Based on the concept of “valuing each life, one tree at a time”,
Sumitomo, like its growth founded upon the Besshi Copper Mine, has continued to grow like a diverse forest. Each company of the group will come together with strength in the pavilion to become a single seed. This seed will be sowed in the hearts of each visitor and ripen with infinite possibilities for the future. This symbol shows how a “forest” shaped like an exclamation mark will start here and continue to spread wonder and excitement across nature, people, and societies now and into the future.
The Sumitomo Pavilion will present, “UNKNOWN FOREST, Stories Waiting to be Discovered”.
Sumitomo, throughout its time spent with the forest, has uncovered its various values to present. Here in this forest, people will discover “UNKNOWN” stories of life that have gone unheard, unseen, and overlooked until now. We hope to speak through this experience in the UNKNOWN FOREST about the values and the teachings that could only be told by a forest.
November 30th, 2023 will mark 500 days until the opening of the EXPO. The Sumitomo Pavilion will leverage the collective forces of the group to bring excitement to EXPO 2025 Osaka, Kansai. The Sumitomo Group will set into action, believing that each step taken by each person along the way will lead to a giant wave for a brilliant future.
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