Event Supported by Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition
Experience The Cycle of Our Lives; inochi's Pay-It-Forward
June 26 (Thu) to June 30 (Mon), 2025
ー What We Create
inochi's Pay-It-Forward
A new form of circulation to support life with data,
Is it only the role of healthcare professionals to save lives?
Is it only your own responsibility to save lives?
It's not just like that.
Let's all save each other's lives together.
Up until now, we have realized ways to save each other's lives.
Blood donation systems, organ donation..
At this expo, we will expand the ways more people can contribute to future lives.
It's called “inochi's Pay-It-Forward.”
Not just blood or organ donation intentions,
but a model that provides numerous health and other data for the future of lives.
Your data will be provided to research institutions and medical organizations,
where new insights discovered there will save someone,
and eventually circle back to save you in the future.
We call this cycle of giving “inochi's Pay-It-Forward.”
During "inochi's Pay-It-Forward Week,"
you will experience such inochi's Pay-It-Forward
and we will offer various mechanisms to connect to the future lives.
From here, the data donation begins.
ー Our Theme
Well-being for Well-dying
In this era of well-being,
let's consider how to live for a good death.
In recent years, as well-being has been increasingly emphasized,
have we truly considered life and its inseparable companion, death?
To fully live a good "life" aimed at a good "death."
Paradoxically, this involves reevaluating life by facing death.
To enrich the life we rediscover through death,
we connect it to a new cycle with inochi's Pay-It-Forward.
With the concept of "Well-being for Well-dying,"
we will express the cycle of inochi,
focusing on life aimed at death and life viewed through death.
From here, the data donation begins.
Producer
Director of the inochi Mirai Project
Masayuki Teramoto
A doctor and Master of Public Health (MPH). While studying at the Osaka University Faculty of Medicine, launched "inochi Gakusei Innovators' Program (iGIP)" during an epidemiological study in developing countries, aiming to solve healthcare issues through the efforts of young people and worked on promoting bottom-up preventive medicine. After graduation, worked at Osaka University Hospital and the World Health Organization (WHO), then studied at the Harvard School of Public Health. Currently at the University of California, San Francisco, in the Department of Epidemiology/Biostatistics, working on identifying new risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and cognitive decline, as well as developing digital biomarkers. Scheduled to begin a PhD program in Health & Biomedical Informatics at Northwestern University Medical School in September 2024.
Organizer
Program Organizer
inochi Mirai Project
inochi Mirai Project is "the project where everyone considers and acts on the importance of life and its future." It involves healthcare professionals, businesses, government, and also citizens and patients. We aim Kansai / Japan to become a city and nation where everyone supports each other and lives a healthier and longer life.
inochi Mirai Project Web Site
Program Co-organizer
inochi WAKAZO Project
We, the inochi WAKAZO Project, are a group of next-generation innovators composed of medical students from multiple universities such as the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Keio University, and Osaka University. Together with industry, government, academia, and young citizens, we realize a future society that protects life, starting with us, the youth.
inochi WAKAZO Project Web Site
Program Sponsor
ー Premium Sponsor
We are currently seeking companies and organizations to sponsor this program.
If you are interested, our team members will be happy to introduce you to our sponsorship plans.
Please contact us through the form below.
Experience
We plan to showcase an installation where you can experience the 'Pay It Forward' concept of inochi throughout the five-day period from Thursday, June 26th to Monday, June 30th, 2025.
Stay tuned for updates!
Events
During the five-day period from Thursday, June 26th to Monday, June 30th, 2025, various events will be held where you can experience the three concepts of reflection, sharing, and circulation!
Stay tuned for updates!
Members
Co Producer
Insu Sung
Studying in the Faculty of Medicine at Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University. WAKAZO project lead. As the 2024 representative of WAKAZO, a project led primarily by medical students aiming to create a future society where people value their own lives for the sake of others' lives. After majoring in Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Kobe University, now pursuing a medical degree.
Creative Director
Masaaki Taberi
Designer, employed at a global tech company. Graduated from the Osaka University School of Economics. Co-founded inochi Gakusei Innovators' Program (iGIP) in 2014 during his studies and led the CI/VI design from the start. After graduation, worked at LINE Corporation before his current position in the Singapore office. Individually involved in service design contributing to social change, including the vote matching site JAPAN CHOICE.
Designer
Aru Sakurai
Currently studying at the School of Nutrition and Dietetics at Kanagawa University of Human Services. Interested in the future insights of food and healthcare, studying the transformation of Japanese food culture using alternative meat purchase information.
Designer
Chinatsu Marumo
Currently studying at the Faculty of Medicine, Osaka University. Interested in redesigning clinical medicine through design, and conducting research on treatments that transform patient behaviors not only inside hospitals but also externally.
Exhibition Director
Jun Mizutani
Graduated from Department of Product Design and Crafts, the Kobe Design University. Architectural constructor. Since 2017, has been involved as a designer, responsible for the graphic design of inochi Gakusei Innovators' Program (iGIP). Currently works at a construction company in Tokyo, handling the construction of architecturally significant retail spaces, and occasionally designs by himself. Notable projects: BALUKO Landry Place Nakamurabashi (design and construction/2022), Kogane-yu (construction/2020), BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE GINZA CAFE (construction/2019)
Architect lead
Kazutaka Ishii
Graduated from the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. Architectural designer. Joined WAKAZO in 2017 and presented the WAKAZO Pavilion concept and designed the exhibition for young innovators, "WAKAZO mini pavilion." Currently works at an architectural organization design office, involved in designing public buildings.
Project Manager
Yuki Kiyomoto
Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Osaka University. Doctor. Joined in 2016 and launched the WAKAZO project in 2017, contributing to the attraction for the Expo as a youth representative. Currently works as a general practitioner at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine and is enrolled in the graduate school of Nagasaki University. Engaging in public health research related to time-series data analysis of emergency transports for heatstroke in Japan.
Project Manager
Toshinnari Yakuo
Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Osaka University. Doctor. Co-founded the inochi Gakusei Innovators' Program (iGIP) in 2014 while in university and co-launched the WAKAZO project in 2017. Presented as a youth representative at the Expo attraction forum held in France in 2018, contributing to the success. Currently works as a pediatrician in Wakayama, Kansai area, focusing on local emergency medical care and neonatal care.