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TOPPAN Holdings Participates in Virtual Expo at Expo 2025

Experience TOPPAN Virtual Expo~Designing Future Society inside the Virtual Expo

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TOPPAN Holdings Participates in Virtual Expo at Expo 2025

Tokyo – March 31, 2025 – TOPPAN Holdings Inc. (TYO: 7911) (TOPPAN Holdings) will operate TOPPAN Virtual Expo~Designing Future Society, a virtual exhibit that can be experienced in Virtual Expo~Yumeshima Islands in the Sky~,1 the virtual site for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan.

As part of TOPPAN Holdings’ sponsorship of Live Earth Journey,2 a Signature Pavilion3 produced by Shoji Kawamori, visitors to the virtual exhibit will be able to enter three rooms to enjoy experiences of the TOPPAN Group’s technologies, innovation, and efforts focused on creation of future global society.

Features

Virtual Expo~Yumeshima Islands in the Sky~ is accessible free of charge via smartphones, tablets, PCs, and VR goggles. The virtual exhibit by TOPPAN Holdings consists of three rooms in a virtual space.

・Room 1:

Hypothetical digital reconstruction of Ito Jakuchu’s The Buddha and Sixteen Arhats Production: TOPPAN Inc. Supervision: Yamashita Yuji (professor at Meiji Gakuin University); Arai Kei (professor at Tokyo University of the Arts)
Hypothetical digital reconstruction of Ito Jakuchu’s The Buddha and Sixteen Arhats
Production: TOPPAN Inc.
Supervision: Yamashita Yuji (professor at Meiji Gakuin University);
Arai Kei (professor at Tokyo University of the Arts)
Using the visual expression technologies accrued by the TOPPAN Group, this room will feature a giant hypothetical digital reconstruction of The Buddha and Sixteen Arhats, a masterpiece by Ito Jakuchu, one of the most famous painters of the Edo period in Japan. In addition to enjoying the beauty of the work of art itself, users will be able to experience the process of digitally reconstructing the painting as a folding screen, which involved estimating the colors, texture, and size of the original painting based only on a small black and white photograph.

・Room 2:

Room 2
The theme of this room is “Future Technology through Games ” It provides interactive content that enables users to enjoy athletic games while learning about technologies that aim to contribute to a sustainable future society, such as the TOPPAN Group’s efforts to support the use of hydrogen energy and to create cultured meat using 3D printers.

・Room 3:

Room 3
Room 3’s theme is “Connect with the World, Connect with the Future.” Users fly through space and encounter the “life” of the TOPPAN Group in the form of employees around the world and experience the Group’s activities in each region as well as the challenges being taken on for the future. Users can also get clothes and items for their avatars.  

●Special website for TOPPAN’s virtual rooms: https://www.expo2025-toppan.com/virtual/ (in Japanese)

TOPPAN Holdings’ Sponsorship of Expo 2025

In addition to contributing to the Future Society Showcase Project at Expo 2025 through the Automatic Translation System as part of the Digital Expo, TOPPAN Holdings is sponsoring two of the thematic project Signature Pavilions—Live Earth Journey (theme: Totality of Life), produced by Shoji Kawamori, and Better Co-Being (theme: Resonance of Lives), produced by Hiroaki Miyata. TOPPAN Holdings is also sponsoring the Zero Gravity Art installation that enables visitors to experience the “birth of life” and the “future of life,” a permanent exhibit in the Future Life Expo / Future Life Experience of the Future Society Showcase Project.

1. Virtual Expo~Yumeshima Islands in the Sky~ is the virtual site of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. Visitors can immerse themselves in the world of the Expo as avatars, navigating pavilions and event facilities that are reproductions of actual buildings, while enjoying unique exhibitions and events developed by each exhibitor—experiences that are only possible in the virtual world. Look forward to a six-month journey where you will travel with people from all over the world and explore a future society for our lives.
　 ・ App scheduled for release on April 3, 2025
　 ・ Supported devices/platforms: smartphones/tablets (iOS/Android), PCs (Windows/Mac), and VR goggles (Meta Quest 2, 3)
　 ・ App download site: https://www.expo2025.or.jp/en/future-index/virtual/virtual-site/#download
2. Signature Pavilions: The thematic projects are a core feature of Expo 2025. The pavilions created by eight experts are called Signature Pavilions because they are signature works that explore the philosophies of each theme. The eight thematic project producers interpret and expand upon Expo 2025’s main theme of “Designing Future Society for Our Lives” from their own unique perspectives and create pavilions that connect to people living in the future. “Signature Pavilion” is a trademark of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition.
3. “Live Earth Journey” is a trademark of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition.

About the TOPPAN Group

Established in Tokyo in 1900, the TOPPAN Group is a leading and diversified global provider committed to delivering sustainable, integrated solutions in fields including printing, communications, security, packaging, décor materials, electronics, and digital transformation. The TOPPAN Group’s global team of more than 50,000 employees offers optimal solutions enabled by industry-leading expertise and technologies to address the diverse challenges of every business sector and society and contribute to the achievement of shared sustainability goals.
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