Co-creating Cultures for the Future Week
Songs and Dances Connecting the World
Expo Connects Cultures of the World ~Introduction to the Cabinet Secretariat Expo International Exchange Program~ Second Half
EXPO 2025 Thematic Project “Invigorating Lives” (Producer NAKAJIMA Sachiko)
This session introduces various ongoing initiatives of the Cabinet Secretariat’s Expo International Exchange Program across Japan. It explores the dynamic encounters and creative possibilities between Japan and the world through the Expo.Bringing together governors, ambassadors, consuls, cultural anthropologists, artists, educators, and children, the event fosters comminicate through diverse local cultures, as well as songs and dances that connect the world, featuring a performance by KURAGE Band—all in an effort to enhance the excitement leading up to the Expo.
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- Connecting Cultures of the World Through Expo
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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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2025.04.26[Sat]
17:50 ～ 20:00
(Venue Open 16:15)
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- Pavilion
- EXPO 2025 Thematic Project “Invigorating Lives” (Producer NAKAJIMA Sachiko)
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This session introduces various ongoing initiatives of the Cabinet Secretariat’s Expo International Exchange Program across Japan. It explores the dynamic encounters and creative possibilities between Japan and the world through the Expo.Bringing together governors, ambassadors, consuls, cultural anthropologists, artists, educators, and children, the event fosters交流 through diverse local cultures, as well as songs and dances that connect the world, featuring a performance by KURAGE Band—all in an effort to enhance the excitement leading up to the Expo.
Producer Nakajima, who is also a musician, will take this opportunity of the Expo, where wisdom from all over the world will gather, to ask the question of the meaning of connecting people and the world through music. It will also serve as an example of the Cabinet Secretariat's Expo International Exchange Program. She will be joined by members of his multinational band "KURAGE Band," as well as guests such as the Yamamoto Noh Theatre, with whom she has worked together to promote culture and the arts, to deliver talks and performances.
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Moderator
NAKAJIMA Sachiko
Thematic Project ”Invigorating Lives" (Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition)
Musician, a mathematics researcher, and a STEAM Educator. She is also CEO of steAm, Inc.,the representative director of steAm BAND Association and a thematic project producer of Expo 2025, Osaka, Kansai, Japan. She also serves as a STEM Girls Ambassador, Cabinet Office, and project researcher of Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences The University of Tokyo. 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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Yoshiko Takeuchi
President, Shikoku Global Network
After working for companies and research institutes, Shikoku Global Network, former Ehime Global Network, was established in 1998. It links the fields of international, environment and education and works collaboratively to solve and improve social issues. It has been 25 years since 1999 since it began supporting Mozambique. Acting as a peace storyteller for Matsuyama City, an NGO consultant of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a supervisor for the Shikoku ESD Centre, and an advisor for the promotion of regional internationalisation for the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations.
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Yushi Yanohara
steAm Director of Education, Associate Professor, Shikoku University
As a teacher at prefectural high schools in Tokushima Prefecture (Komatsushima Nishi High School and Tokushima Commercial High School), he developed practical classes in which students work on their own projects, leading them to win a national excellence award at the National High School Student Commerce Research and Presentation Competition. In addition, as a lecturer for the training program for teachers of commercial high schools in Japan conducted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), he has been developing new classes in collaboration with industry that will serve as a national model. He retired from high school teaching in March 2021, and is currently an associate professor at Shikoku University and a member of steAm, Inc. He is currently an associate professor at Shikoku University and a member of steAm, Inc.
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Yushi Yanohara
Music anthropologist, Cameroon Baka researcher, DJ
Cultural anthropologist and DJ. Since 2005, he has conducted fieldwork on sound culture in Cameroon. By exploring the traditional sound practices of the Baka people in the tropical rainforest and the cutting-edge sound culture emerging in urban areas, he examines worldviews expressed through sound. Through Africa’s soundscapes, he seeks new forms of creation where culture, technology, and coexistence interact.
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Abrainjai Rose Abdoulaye Ndiaye Rose
Grio, the inheritor of Senegal's traditional performing arts
He studied percussion instruments under his father "Dudu Njai Rose", a leading person in Senegal's percussion world and a Sabalist of the living national treasure, and gained experience playing on numerous overseas tours. He performed with James Brown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995.
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Co-creating Cultures for the Future Week
Songs and Dances Connecting the World
Expo Connects Cultures of the World ~Introduction to the Cabinet Secretariat Expo International Exchange Program~ Second Half
This session introduces various ongoing initiatives of the Cabinet Secretariat’s Expo International Exchange Program across Japan. It explores the dynamic encounters and creative possibilities between Japan and the world through the Expo.Bringing together governors, ambassadors, consuls, cultural anthropologists, artists, educators, and children, the event fosters comminicate through diverse local cultures, as well as songs and dances that connect the world, featuring a performance by KURAGE Band—all in an effort to enhance the excitement leading up to the Expo.
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2025.04.26[Sat]
17:50～20:00
(Venue Open 16:15)
- Pavilion
- * 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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