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.

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"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"

A model of the Wind Hunter more than 3m in length x 2m in height is placed, and the sails expand, contract, and rotate according to the wind generated by visitors facing the model. This is a visitor-participation attraction that allows visitors to learn about the mechanism of using the wind to navigate, produce, and supply hydrogen in a fun and intuitive way by linking images on a large screen with the model.

Various original videos

Five themed videos will be aired on a large screen, each with a completely different direction. These videos will provide easy-to-understand information on the current and future roles of vessels in marine transport, and the evolution and possibilities of people and vessels.

Collaboration with Kawasaki Heavy Industries

Several times a day, special presentations will be held using the Kawasaki Heavy Industries and MOL exhibition areas and screens in an integrated manner. These will show how hydrogen produced and transported by the Wind Hunter is supplied to and used by Kawasaki Heavy Industries' hydrogen mobility. Visitors can experience the dynamic hydrogen supply chain depicted by the two companies through powerful visuals and staging.

* Contents of the exhibition are subject to change without notice.