WIND VISION "Future Life Expo: Future City" Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai

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WIND VISION "Future Life Expo: Future City" Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai

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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines is a Bronze Partner of the "Future Life Expo: Future City", one of the Future Society Showcase Projects at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. We will present new possibilities for both vessels and marine transport in our exhibit.

Day of Expo 2025!

"The Future City"
and MOL

What is "The Future City"?

"Future Life Expo: Future City" is a pavilion where visitors can experience urban life in the future, as envisioned by Society 5.0. Innovation will balance economic development with solutions to various social issues, and open up a new concept of a people-centered city designed to make them happy. Our ideal is the fulfillment of happiness for each and every one of us (Leave no one behind), which leads to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Toward that end, the "Future City" is the stage that everyone, the world over, can view as a shared goal.
It is part of the "Future Society Showcase Project" promoted by the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, and will be held by the association and 12 sponsors.

Attractiveness of the "Future City"

One of the largest pavilions at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan.

The facility area is about 4,800 m² (150m long x 33m wide), and it has a distinctive exterior, centered on the design concept of the "DOUBLE SKIN" with an area of about 3,300 m².

Exhibit staging structure with depth

The exhibition will consist of two types of exhibits: the "Common Exhibition," which will be organized by the association, and the "individual company exhibition," which will be organized by each of the 12 sponsors. The new city proposed by Society 5.0 will be unveiled as visitors move from the theme exhibit at the entrance of the pavilion, through the common exhibition, and then to the individual company exhibition.

MOL's Vision and the "Future City"

In the Future City, a place for "demonstration" and "practical implementation" of next-generation technologies and social systems, the MOL Group is planning an exhibition focusing on the Wind Hunter Project, one of the low-carbon projects set forth in the "MOL Group Environmental Vision 2.2."
The Wind Hunter uses the sail technology that we have accumulated in the Wind Challenger project, and applies it to another level of advancement. The "Wind Hunter" is a next-generation vessel, a hybrid plant that combines a moving offshore wind turbine with a hydrogen production plant. This all-in-one package combines the creation, storage, and transport of green hydrogen using offshore wind power. This is a project that will achieve complete zero emissions.
If only we could safely transport cargo around the world without having to refuel at all…If we could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and achieve the ultimate in zero emissions...
Our society-contributing to the achievement of the SDGs and realizing the goals of Society 5.0-will be integrated with the concept envisioned by the "Wind Hunter."

Exhibition Booth
and Concept

Exhibition area

The Future City will consist of a theme exhibition, a common exhibition, and individual company exhibitions. Among the individual company exhibition areas, which consist of four fields, MOL will exhibit in the "Transportation and Mobility" zone. The stage is set for a Society 5.0 world where people and goods not only move around but where new values, such as environmental contributions, are created and overlap with the field of transportation.

Exhibition concept 'WIND VISION'

The MOL Group aims to share the ways we will contribute to social infrastructure in anticipation of a hydrogen-based society and to think and co-create the future together with visitors so that they can sense the new possibilities of vessels and marine transport. We plan to create a memorable interactive experience for visitors, so they can feel the wind-an inexhaustible natural energy that the Wind Hunter captures-and sense its power behind a new movement that underlies our daily lives, industry, energy, and social change.

Exhibition content

"Wind Vision attraction"

When wind-generated by visitors waving traditional Japanese uchiwa fans-is blown through the 4-meter-long, 3-meter-high Wind Hunter model, a simulated voyage begins, and scenes of how hydrogen is produced, transported, and supplied are shown on the large screen in the back. Not only the sails of the model expand, contract, and rotate in conjunction with the wind, but the ending scene also changes depending on the amount of wind generated. This is one of the few visitor-participation attractions in the Future City Pavilion that allows visitors to play and learn as if they were enjoying a game, by linking models and images. Visitors can also take home the original uchiwa fans used for the demonstration as souvenirs of their visit.

Projected images at the interactive "Wind Vision Attraction"

Various Original videos

The 5images projected on the large screen at any given time are based on the themes of "Creating a Hydrogen Society," "Harnessing the Infinite Wind," "Connecting Manufacturing," "Creating Value in Daily Life," and "Moving the Future," expressing the relationship of vessels with society, industry, and people, and brings the shipping industry closer to the visitors. In addition, a collaborative video of the exhibits featuring the Wind Hunter, which produces hydrogen, and the hydrogen-fueled next-generation mobility, exhibited by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. will be both projected on a powerful 17-meter-long screen.

Some of the images projected on screen

Collaboration with Kawasaki Heavy Industries

The exhibition will adopt a joint exhibition format with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. which shares the common theme of hydrogen, and will feature collaborative video projection to give visitors a sense of the evolution of a future hydrogen society and mobility on a larger scale.