Japan: Expo 2025 Osaka gears up to take the world by surprise with its 'resonant society' concept

Expo 2025 in Japan is set to take the world by surprise with its innovations and focus on humanity at a time of sombre global challenges.

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00:00Our aim is realizing society 5.0.

00:16After industrial revolution, economic laws absorb everything, like sometimes culture,

00:23sometimes companies, sometimes the country.

00:28We think economic is vital, but it's just a process.

00:34So we need to do the future vision together.

00:38We set up the same way for the Expo, so not only environment, but also the well-being

00:45or the culture.

00:47So we need to create the future vision together and step together.

00:53One of the quite unique symbols is the Forest of Tranquility.

00:59The former Expo set the artificial monument.

01:03It's a man-made, sometimes huge one, like an Eiffel Tower.

01:07But this Expo, we invite forest.

01:12It's an ecosystem.

01:13So when the forest grows up, some trees die because they cannot catch the sunshine.

01:21So we detect such kind of dying trees and transplant them into the forest, the Expo

01:28site, and revive.

01:30So this is the Forest of Inclusion.

01:33And the digital technology, we think one of the core concepts is resonate, resonate together.

01:41So the forest is a symbol of the resonate human-human, human and environment, and human

01:48future.

01:51The world is just struggling to search the new vision.

02:14So no one knows what's going on next.

02:18So there is no major streams, but at Expo, we can gather together, not only the advanced

02:28country, but also the global south country, discuss together what is the better future.

02:36The former Expo is just a showcase for the technology.

02:42Coming Expo will become, how can we share the future?

02:46How can we co-create a future vision?

02:49That's a great, important point, we think.

02:52This Expo is not just a passive display.

02:56So the simple bench design or small discussion might change the world.

03:02So your participation will change the future, and let's co-create together.