Latvia's participation in the world's largest exhibition, EXPO 2025 Osaka, has come to an end, but the high-quality impression and mark that the country has left on the lives of the 900,000 visitors to the Baltic Pavilion is lasting. The joint pavilion design by Latvia and Lithuania, the specially created program of cultural and business events, and the warm welcome, in which the pavilion guides played a significant role as daily ambassadors of Latvian values, all contributed greatly to this. Each guide's path to participating in the Osaka EXPO is slightly different – from Asian studies in Latvia and training in Japan to a close, several-year-long determination to represent the country at this exhibition – but they all have something in…