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▼ Osaka Expo Association Set To Join Forces Toward Path To Success
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OSAKA — With the Wednesday launch of a steering association for the Osaka-Kansai Japan Expo 2025, its members are set to join forces from all over the nation to successfully bring off the World Expo.
The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, a general incorporated association, was inaugurated Wednesday morning to operate the exposition.
In the inaugural meeting held at the Osaka Prefectural Government Sakishima Building (Cosmo Tower) in Suminoe Ward in Osaka, top officials from the nation’s three major business organizations, the Osaka prefectural government and the city of Osaka, among other organizations, took office as members of the board of directors.
They will work out specific plans toward the large-scale World Expo to be held in Osaka for the first time in 55 years, developing a Japan-wide unified stance.
Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi was elected as head of the new body. Ten vice chairpersons elected at the general meeting of the association include Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura; Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, chairman of the Japanese Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai); Akio Mimura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry; and other top officials from the Kansai region’s three major business organizations.
The headquarters office will be established in the Cosmo Tower, close to Yumeshima, an artificial island in Konohana Ward that will be the exposition venue.
High-ranking officials and others from the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry, the Osaka prefectural government and Osaka city will be dispatched to work for the association. The association will be operated with about 30 staff for the time being, and will go into full operation around August.
The association is required to submit a registration document to the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) in Paris by May 2020, detailing specific plans for the 2025 Expo, including transportation options for visitors and ways to finance the project. It aims to draw up the plan by the end of this year.
“To show a future society by gathering wisdom from public and private sectors, the association will take the initiative to join forces from all over the nation,” Nakanishi said at a press conference.
After putting up a signboard at the office, the board members made an inspection tour to the planned 155-hectare venue in Yumeshima.
The theme of the Expo is “Designing Future Society for Our Lives.” The central government expects about 28 million people will visit during the exhibition period, and that there will be economic benefits of about ¥2 trillion.
There also is a plan to establish an integrated resort including a casino at a 70-hectare area adjacent to the exposition site. The Osaka municipal government plans to extend the Osaka Metro subway line to Yumeshima by the end of 2024 as a means of transportation between the resort and exposition areas.
The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, a general incorporated association, was inaugurated Wednesday morning to operate the exposition.
In the inaugural meeting held at the Osaka Prefectural Government Sakishima Building (Cosmo Tower) in Suminoe Ward in Osaka, top officials from the nation’s three major business organizations, the Osaka prefectural government and the city of Osaka, among other organizations, took office as members of the board of directors.
They will work out specific plans toward the large-scale World Expo to be held in Osaka for the first time in 55 years, developing a Japan-wide unified stance.
Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi was elected as head of the new body. Ten vice chairpersons elected at the general meeting of the association include Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura; Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, chairman of the Japanese Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai); Akio Mimura, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry; and other top officials from the Kansai region’s three major business organizations.
The headquarters office will be established in the Cosmo Tower, close to Yumeshima, an artificial island in Konohana Ward that will be the exposition venue.
High-ranking officials and others from the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry, the Osaka prefectural government and Osaka city will be dispatched to work for the association. The association will be operated with about 30 staff for the time being, and will go into full operation around August.
The association is required to submit a registration document to the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) in Paris by May 2020, detailing specific plans for the 2025 Expo, including transportation options for visitors and ways to finance the project. It aims to draw up the plan by the end of this year.
“To show a future society by gathering wisdom from public and private sectors, the association will take the initiative to join forces from all over the nation,” Nakanishi said at a press conference.
After putting up a signboard at the office, the board members made an inspection tour to the planned 155-hectare venue in Yumeshima.
The theme of the Expo is “Designing Future Society for Our Lives.” The central government expects about 28 million people will visit during the exhibition period, and that there will be economic benefits of about ¥2 trillion.
There also is a plan to establish an integrated resort including a casino at a 70-hectare area adjacent to the exposition site. The Osaka municipal government plans to extend the Osaka Metro subway line to Yumeshima by the end of 2024 as a means of transportation between the resort and exposition areas.
- January 31, 2019
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