Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan
That day,
our lives resonated as one.
LIFE INOCHI with
the Super Kids Orchestra
EXPO Hall “Shine Hat”
Images, music, and voices.
A day of coming together.
On September 27, 2025, “LIFE INOCHI with the Super Kids Orchestra” took place at EXPO Hall “Shine Hat” as an official program of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, held as a cooperation event of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition.
The imagery of LIFE, live orchestral music, and choral singing. Across three performances, we shared an experience of life with approximately 6,000 people.
Love transcends
everything.
These were the words we received when the performance at Shine Hat was confirmed. True to those words, love remained at the heart of this art project, even on the vast stage of an Expo bringing together people from around the world.
However far our times and technologies advance, the preciousness of each life—and of the warmth connecting one human heart with another—does not change. This was a day when we felt the possibility of sharing that understanding across borders.
When we connect with the source of life, we can connect with the profound love within people. It was also a moment that brought together seven years of sharing LIFE with that belief.
Care and intention,
in every detail.
The imagery created for the performance, the costumes, and the operations at the extraordinary setting of the Expo. Creating a performance with more than 300 performers and staff was a major undertaking, both artistically and organizationally.
We honored each element of expression and were able to deliver all three performances. Our gratitude to everyone who helped bring them to life is boundless.
To everyone who helped
create this day.
To everyone who came, including those who traveled from afar.
To the performers, staff, co-organizers, endorsing organizations, and sponsors.
And to the supporters who sustained us with such sincerity and love.
Your individual contributions came together to create this space.
With heartfelt gratitude beyond words.
Connecting with the world
through this resonance.
INOCHI WORLD PROJECT was born on September 27, 2025, with this Expo stage as its starting point.
With the INOCHI Orchestra and INOCHI Choir at its heart, the story continues to its next stage.
Event details and the people who made it possible.
- Official status
- Official program of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan
A cooperation event of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition - Performance
- LIFE INOCHI with the Super Kids Orchestra
- Date and venue
- Saturday, September 27, 2025
EXPO Hall “Shine Hat,” Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan - performances
- Three performances: 13:00 / 16:00 / 19:00
- Organizer and producer
- Feel&Sense, General Incorporated Association
- Co-organizer
- Inochi Forum
- Endorsement
- Osaka Convention & Tourism Bureau
View performers, sponsors, and production credits
- Performers
- Masahiko Hashimoto / Sayaka Hashimoto / Super Kids Orchestra
- Conductor and piano
- Conductor: 大谷麻由美 / Piano: 上條瑞穂
- Arrangements
- 大八木伸幸 / Choral arrangements: Hideki Chihara
- Choirs
- Wakayama Children’s Choir / Sanda Children’s Choir / Ikeda Junior Choir / Taipei Children’s Choir
Department of Expression and Communication, Osaka YMCA International College / Public participants - Shakuhachi and host
- Shakuhachi: 松本学 / Host: 名合禮歩
- Special sponsor
- Suntory Holdings Limited
- Sponsors
- Kansai Osaka 21st Century Association / Daiwa Lease Co., Ltd. / AWS Co., Ltd. / Zero Seiko Co., Ltd. / Delight Lab / Daikin Industries, Ltd. / Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. / Rengo Co., Ltd. / The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. / WOMBIST Co.Ltd. / The Japanese Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology / Medical Corporation Kojinkai, Jikihara Women’s Clinic / Japan Sophrology Research Association
- Stage and technical production
- Stage management: 株式会社パティムナン
Sound: NMG Recording Studio, 三輪卓也
Lighting: 渡部行洋
Projection: 沖原泰夫 / Altair LLC - Photography and filming
- Tomato red motion / Grid / 藤田康介
Photography and filming credits as listed in the original event report - Production and cooperation
- Brochure and website production: Aru Co., Ltd.
Cooperation: Anju Home Co., Ltd. / 神戸雅堂 - Acknowledgments in the original report
- Faculty of Regional Collaboration, Kochi University / Yasue Mitsukura, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University
Everyone involved with the Super Kids Orchestra / Project supporters - Project operations
- Supporter managers: 岸本真紀 / 中出久子 / 北智子
Project manager: 座間翔子