Japan joins Expo Milano 2015, with the aim of proposing its food culture as an example of a healthy, sustainable and balanced diet.
Furthermore, the country also sees the event as an opportunity to promote its image following the devastating earthquake of 2011, promoting business and tourism opportunities.
Designed by the architect Atsushi Kitagawara The pavilion contains installations of high profile creative Japanese Nendo e TeamLab.
The pavilion fuses traditional culture with advanced technology, using a compression deformation method in which the joints consist only of carved wood, with no metal hooks. The three-dimensional wooden grid symbolizes the origin of Japan's seasonal variation, imagined as a "bowl of diversity".
Under the theme of harmonious diversity, the TeamLab creative studio presents two art exhibitions inside the pavilion. Interactive installations are spread across two rooms, which includes an immersive projection space that requires the visitor to wade through a technological expanse at a digital cascade of Japanese food information.
As part of the pavilion, the Japanese studio Nendo has designed an inclined table accompanied by a series of chairs.