The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition (hereinafter referred to as “the Association”) is pleased to announce the sponsorship details of the “Digital Expo: Automatic Translation System”, part of the Future Society Showcase Project at Expo 2025, Osaka, Kansai, Japan (hereinafter referred to as “the Expo”), as well as the services that will be available to visitors.
■ Project Name
Automatic Translation System
■ Sponsoring Companies and Organisations
・TOPPAN Holdings Inc. (Tokyo) (announced on 18 January, 2023)
・SoundUD Consortium Representative: Yamaha Corporation (Shizuoka)
・NTT DOCOMO, INC. (Tokyo)
・Mirai Translate, Inc. (Tokyo)
■ Project Overview
・Automatic Translation System
The advanced automatic translation system (consecutive translation and automatic simultaneous interpretation) will facilitate communication across language barriers for everything from pre-Expo events to the provision of information and services during the Expo. By demonstrating an automatic translation system in various situations, such as responding to enquiries from foreign visitors using a smartphone app, simultaneous interpretation at seminars and other events held at the Expo site, multilingual communication at the virtual Expo site, and multilingual announcement broadcasts indoors and outdoors, the project will create the “communication of the future” and create an environment where visitors from all over the world can experience global exchange.
・Use of a domestically developed translation engine
The automatic translation system at the Expo will use a domestically developed translation engine. It is being researched and developed as part of an R&D project for the “advancement of multilingual translation technology” as part of the “Global Communication Plan 2025” by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The “Future Society Showcase Project, Digital Expo: Automatic Translation System” at the Expo will showcase to the world the results of this research, development, and demonstration experiments to improve the accuracy of consecutive translation, which is a technology that is already in use, and further advance the technology for simultaneous interpretation.
*Click here (see the appendix) to see an overview of the sponsorship and details of the services available to visitors. (Japanese)
■ Launch of the Multilingual translation app “EXPO Translation”
The multilingual translation app “EXPO Translation”, provided by TOPPAN Holdings Limited, is now operational and can be downloaded free of charge from Wednesday, 29 January 2025 on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
(For Reference) About the Future Society Showcase Project
The Future Society Showcase Project is a general term referring to a group of projects that provide experiences to a wide range of participants and visitors from Japan and abroad by utilising technologies and services that support the theme of the Expo, “Designing Future Society for Our Lives” for the development, operation, exhibition, and events of the Expo site, in the form of “demonstrations” that give a sense of the future beyond 2025, and “implementation” that is suitable for the Expo.
*The above information is current as of 21 January 2025 and may be subject to change.
Enquiries
Global Communication Department, Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition
Email: globalpr@expo2025.or.jp