PhilosophyKeihanna Expo 2025
Keihanna Science City, whose official name is Kansai Science City, is one of Japan’s leading science cities, known as Tsukuba in the east and Keihanna in the west.
Keihanna Science City is characterized by being primarily based on collaboration between industry, government, and academia, with extensive participation from private companies and organizations, and collaboration among eight municipalities in three prefectures.
We have been exploring ways to contribute to society in a variety of fields, including robot development, information and communication technology, earth-friendly environmental energy, cutting-edge medical care, and biotechnology.
I want to create, communicate, and realize a society where everyone, from children to the elderly, can live happily and happily from Keihanna. The Keihanna Expo is planning a number of events under the theme of “Contribution to future society – solutions for the next generation”, where you can experience and feel the future that we have envisioned together with science and technology.
Keihanna Science City was planned as a new type of city where science and daily life are closely linked.
Through close collaboration between industry, government agencies, and academic institutions, and joint research among many companies, research institutes, and universities, we aim to create a society where everyone can live in good health and comfort.
As the name “Culture and Academic Research City” suggests, research and development is also progressing in the fields of culture and art. For example, you can experience the long history of the Keihanna region, which was the capital during the Nara period, and use digital technology and robotics to inherit and develop Keihanna’s traditional industries, such as the cultivation of Japanese tea that has continued since the Heian period, into the future. I am.
At the Keihanna Expo, we will introduce “Robots, Avatars, and ICT (Information and Communication Technology)” to experience a symbiotic society of humans and avatars, “Well-being” to think about the state of health, food, environment, and mind in order to live a better life, and venture companies. You can see the numerous projects and cutting-edge technologies that we have worked on under four themes: “Start-up”, which supports and creates new business opportunities, and “Science & Art”, which combines science and culture.
Keihanna Expo?
Where is Keihanna?
The Keihanna Expo is an expo that will be held in Keihanna at the same time as the 2025 Osaka/Kansai Expo. Awareness is still low, and it’s not uncommon for people not only from the Tokyo metropolitan area and far-flung areas, but also from the Kansai area to ask, “What’s Keihanna?”
Keihanna Science City is a pilot city planned and constructed to solve the problems of human society” in the Keihanna Hills that straddles the three prefectures of Kyoto, Osaka, and Nara. Although it is a place where some of the world’s most cutting-edge technological research is being conducted, it has developed into a complex city that combines rich history and culture, idyllic scenery, and nature. The society we aim for cannot be created in a research lab alone. We would like local residents, businesses, governments, and everyone else with an interest to pool their knowledge and explorea future created by science and people.”
I don’t know what I’m researching…
Many cutting-edge technologies cannot be made public. Even if you visit Keihanna Science City, you will not be able to see up close the research that goes on inside.
From now on, various plans are underway to provide even more opportunities for students to experience science more closely.
The first step in this direction is the Keihanna Expo. Everyone involved in the Expo pools their knowledge to come up with a plan that will be fun, easy to understand, and interesting for everyone.
Cutting-edge science is being researched quietly in faraway facilities, and we have no chance to see or be involved in our daily lives.
The Keihanna Expo will open its doors to the general public who feel this way. In addition, Keihanna will not treat the 2025 Osaka/Kansai Expo as a one-off event, but will fulfill its responsibility as a “post-Expo City” that will inherit the achievements and legacy of the Expo.
Currently, self-driving mobility, “spatial wireless power transmission systems” that can charge smartphones and other devices without a charger, and rich communication by sharing 3D space with people in remote locations and reproducing detailed facial expressions and movements are now possible. Research is also being conducted on REXR (3D avatar system), which can be used to perform.
We hope that children, who will be responsible for the future, will be interested in science that will make the future convenient and interesting.
To help the elderly and socially vulnerable people live more vibrant and healthy lives.
Keihanna Science City will utilize the commons (shared property) that gathers the wisdom of people from various fields and positions, and will seek ways to further development by fusing human power and science and technology.
As the world’s population grows and people’s lives advance, new problems are emerging. From now on, we must balance technological development and conservation of the global environment. Resolving this issue is the responsibility of humankind, which has lived by consuming resources.
Robot technology, biotechnology, and efforts to improve medical and nursing care all aim to help humanity achieve better cultural and social prosperity while protecting the global environment. This philosophy is also the reason for the establishment of Keihanna Science City itself.
The Keihanna Expo is just the beginning of spreading the latest technology and research results from Keihanna to Japan, and then to the world.
Cutting-edge science and technology that once existed only in fiction is gradually being implemented in our daily lives.
The era has shifted from the production phase to the usage phase.
Experience the “future that is kind to people and the earth” that is just around the corner at the Expo, which is open to everyone.
