We will use these capabilities as a trigger to sustain growth and development of Osaka,
Kansai as well as Japan following on from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
A World Expo is an event that brings together people and innovations from around the world
in an effort to address issues facing mankind on a global scale.
The Osaka Expo 1970, Japan’s, and Asia’s, first ever,
became a symbol of Japan’s rapid economic growth and one of the country’s most lauded events.
Twenty years after the Aichi Expo 2005, Expo 2025 Osaka,
Kansai will bring the international community back to Japan.
Elevator (New York Exhibition, 1853), telephone (Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876),
family restaurants, wireless telephones, electric cars, moving sidewalks (Expo 1970 Osaka),
entry tickets embedded with IC chips, AED, dry mist (Aichi Exposition, 2005).
In 2025, the world will be a mere five years away from 2030,
the year the United Nations has set as the target for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
making it a crucial one for ramping up efforts to achieve these goals.
Therefore, Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai will become a key platform for reaching the SDGs by 2030.
“Society 5.0” is Japan’s national strategy to develop a human-centered society that progresses economically
and resolves social issues through a system that combines both cyber and physical spaces in a sophisticated manner.
It refers to a new form of society chronologically following hunting, farming, industry, and information societies.
A society that is able to resolve a variety of issues on a global scale with technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT),
Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, big data, and biotechnology is a society that will have achieved the SDGs.