Learning and Playing Week
Harnessing the strengths of diverse personalities
Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition
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| Transmission of simultaneous interpretation | Provided |
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| Language of interpretation | Japanese and English |
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- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
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Date of
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2025.07.28[Mon]
17:00 ～ 19:30
(Venue Open 16:30)
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- Venue
- Theme Weeks Studio
Programme details
The programme, together with the General Sponsors, explores: 'How will learning change in response to diversity, including diverse values, generations, races, genders, disabilities, and more?'
*Simultaneous interpretation is available in both English and Japanese. Please bring a smartphone, tablet or other internet-enabled device with earphones to listen.
Subtitles for this program are available at the URL below.
EXPO2025 Theme Weeks 「Harnessing the strengths of diverse personalities」
<Subtitles URL> https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83555601348
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Cast
Moderator
Sachiko Nakajima
Thematic Project "Invigorating Lives" (Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition)
Sachiko Nakajima is a musician, a mathematics researcher, and a STEAM Educator. She is also CEO of steAm, Inc., and a thematic project producer of Expo 2025, Osaka, Kansai, Japan. She also serves as a STEM Girls Ambassador, Cabinet Office. She won the gold medal as the first Japanese woman in the International Mathematical Olympiad. She passionately conducts research on art and technology as well as music, mathematics, and education.
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Anuthra Sirisena
President, Tenom Innovation Center (TIC)
Cikgu Anuthra is the Malaysia Teacher Prize 2022 winner from Tenom, Sabah, Malaysia. She transformed her students' learning through gamification and innovations, leading to one of the top Chemistry results in the state of Sabah. As founder of Tenom Innovation Centre (TIC), she trains thousands in coding and robotics and has expanded to over 12 new makers-hubs in Malaysia.
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Maher Nasser
Director, Outreach Division, Department of Global Communications, United Nations・Commissioner-General of the UN at Expo2025
Maher Nasser has over 37 years of work experience in the United Nations System during which he has worked in Amman, Cairo, Dubai, Gaza, New York and Vienna. As the Director of Outreach in the United Nations Department of Global Communications, Maher leads the Department’s engagement with academia, advertising industry, civil society, creative community, libraries, sports and football. The Outreach Division that he leads manages public engagement through UN Publications, visitor services, exhibits and guided tours at the UN HQ in New York as well as key observances on select and high-profile mandates from the United Nations General Assembly such as the Outreach Programmes on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery and the Holocaust.
In addition to serving three times as Acting Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications since 2012, Mr. Nasser led the successful United Nations presence at Expo 2020 in Dubai as Commissioner-General of the United Nations at Expo 2020. In February 2024, United Nations Secretary-General designated Mr. Nasser as the Commissioner-General of the United Nations at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Kansai, Japan.
Maher graduated with B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Birzeit University in Palestine in 1986 and obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Warwick University in the United Kingdom in 2004. For a life and work dedicated to and advocacy for human rights and sustainability, Maher was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by De Montfort University in the United Kingdom in 2024.
Maher Nasser is an avid reader who enjoys cooking and is a reluctant runner, who managed to complete the New York City Marathon three times in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Maher is married and has three grown children.
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Tetsuo Goda
Deputy Commissioner, Agecy for Cultural Affairs, JAPAN
Raised in Kurashiki. Joined the former Ministry of Education in 1992. Previously held positions including Director of the High School Education Division at the Fukuoka Prefectural Board of Education, NSF (National Science Foundation) Visiting Fellow, Director of the Curriculum Division and Director of the Finance Division at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Elementary and Secondary School Bureau, and Counselor at the Cabinet Office before assuming his current position. Twice in charge of revising the Japanese National Curriculum Standards for K-12 Education, and served as President of the Public Elementary and Secondary School PTA for six years. His solo works include "How to Read and Utilize the the Japanese National Curriculum Standards for K-12 Education," and co-authored works include "The Future of Schools Starts Here" and "Challenge to Inquiry Mode."
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Satoshi Fukushima
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo Interdisciplinary Barrier-Free Study Project Professor
Born December 25, 1962 in Kobe, Japan, he became blind at age 9, deaf at age 18, and totally deafblind. In 1983, he entered Tokyo Metropolitan University. He was the first deafblind person in Japan to enter a university. After completing a doctoral course at the same university, he worked as an assistant lecturer at the same university and as an associate professor (education of children with disabilities) at the Faculty of Education, Kanazawa University, before becoming an associate professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo in 2001, a professor at the same center from 2008, and a project professor there from 2023. He has served as a board member of the Japan Deafblind Association since 1991. He has been the Asian Regional Representative of the World Federation of the Deafblind since 2001. D. (PhD.). Books “the Deafblind and Normalization” Akashi Shoten 1997 “Life is Communication with Others” Sobokusha 2010 “Living Deafblind” Akashi Shoten 2011 “My Life is Words” Chichi-Shuppansha 2015 “Words are Light” Doyusha 2016, etc.
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Learning and Playing Week
Harnessing the strengths of diverse personalities
-
2025.07.28[Mon]
17:00～19:30
(Venue Open 16:30)
- Theme Weeks Studio
- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
- * The schedule is subject to change depending on the organiser's circumstances.
Reservations are required for this programme.
Booking typically opens with the '2-month advance lottery.' Click below for details.
* Arrive early; latecomers may not be admitted.
For more information about making a reservation to watch a programme.
Please watch the Virtual Studio if you are outside the venue.
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