Japan’s construction skills shortage threatens to overshadow Expo 2025

Lucy Barnard Senior Web editor

31 May 2024

Japan’s Expo 2025 is expected to welcome 28.2 million visitors between April and October next year at a 155 hectare site inside a huge latticed wooden ring. But construction work on the megaproject is being overshadowed by the country’s acute labour shortage. Lucy Barnard reports.

On an artificial island in Osaka Bay dozens of tracked crawler cranes are slowly moving around a 675-meter diameter latticed ring set to become one of the largest wooden buildings in the world.

Less than a year before Japan’s long-awaited Expo 2025 and the site for next year’s World’s…

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