[Osaka University 21st Century Kaitokudo] [Held on October 8th] Nakanoshima Pavilion Festival 2025 3rd Symposium “Nakanoshima Declaration – Let’s Build Bridges from Nakanoshima”
Osaka University 21st Century Kaitokudo Press Release: October 2, 2025 [Held on October 8th] Nakanoshima Pavilion Festival 2025 3rd Symposium “Nakanoshima Declaration – Let’s Build Bridges from Nakanoshima”
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Nakanoshima, located in the center of Osaka, is an island stretching approximately 3 kilometers from east to west, sandwiched between the Dojima River and the Tosabori River. With a concentration of historical buildings, art museums, libraries, parks, and more, it is a treasure trove of world-class cultural assets and a symbol of Osaka, the water city. At the beginning of the Edo period in 1603, Yodoya Tsuneyasu built a bridge over the Tosabori River at his own expense to access Nakanoshima, and the area began its development as a town of storehouses. Since then, Nakanoshima has continued to develop, and a variety of developments are currently underway to enhance its international competitiveness. Communicating to the world the charm and creativity of Nakanoshima, where history, the environment, cultural assets, people, and things come together, will enhance the brand value of Osaka and the Kansai region. To achieve this, it is essential that industry, government, academia, and citizens engage in dialogue across boundaries and share visions and actions for the future society. With the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo as an opportunity, “All of Nakanoshima” will come together and express its strong feelings to the world in the form of the “Nakanoshima Declaration.” The main concept is “building bridges,” which has been key to Nakanoshima’s development. As Nakanoshima is made up of six “cho” characters, we are issuing this declaration from Nakanoshima to the world in order to build six bridges and connect creative development to the future. We therefore ask that you actively spread the word about this event and consider covering it and attending on the day. Event summary Date and Time: Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Location: Saji Keizo Memorial Hall, 10th floor, Nakanoshima Center, Osaka University 4-3-53 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka City, approximately 5 minutes’ walk from Nakanoshima Station on the Keihan Nakanoshima Line. Participation Fee: Free (maximum of 150 people, advance reservations required) Speaker: Shojiro Nishio (Osaka University) Former President) Reiko Horikoshi (Director of Western Japan and Representative of Osaka Headquarters, The Asahi Shimbun Company) Shinya Yamamoto (Director (Chairman of the Board), Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings Corporation) Masaki Fujita (Osaka International Convention Center Co., Ltd.) President and CEO) Tomio Sugaya (Director, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka) Mika Yokoyama (Executive Vice President, Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.) *The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. Executive Committee member is Fujino Kenichi (Chairman and Representative Director) Yoshifumi Kato (Chairman and Representative Director, Keihan Holdings Co., Ltd.) Atsuhiko Shima (Director, The National Museum of Art, Osaka) Taku Maruyama (Daibiru Corporation) Representative Director, President and CEO) Masato Namba (Chairman of the Board, Takenaka Corporation) Shuichi Kageyama (Chairman of the Board, Royal Hotel Co., Ltd.) In addition, presenters from each company will be presenting. *Speakers may be replaced by substitutes. Moderator: Chieko Kinoshita (Associate Professor, 21st Century Kaitokudo, Osaka University) How to register for the event Please apply using the dedicated application form below.
https://ws.formzu.net/fgen/S14516292/ *Registration will close once capacity is reached. *Press representatives are also requested to register. Contact Information “Nakanoshima Declaration – Build Bridges from Nakanoshima” Secretariat Email：nakanoshima_sengen@astem-co.co.jp Sponsored Nakanoshima Pavilion Festival 2025 Executive Committee, Creative Island Nakanoshima Executive Committee, Japan Arts Council, Agency for Cultural Affairs Co-host Osaka University 21st Century Kaitokudo
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/137338/4/137338-4-6c001dfc12729c96059308cd02265275-1240×1754.png What is the Nakanoshima Pavilion Festival 2025? Nakanoshima, home to a diverse collection of cultural facilities and historical buildings, is the symbolic island of Osaka’s “Water City,” the host city of the Osaka-Kansai Expo 2025. The Nakanoshima Pavilion Festival 2025 is a project to establish the Nakanoshima brand worldwide by treating existing world-class cultural facilities as pavilions, integrating them with the park’s waterfront and public open spaces, and
concentrating co-created content undertaken by all of Nakanoshima. It will create and disseminate opportunities to experience the charms of Nakanoshima all at once.
https://nakanoshima-pf.jp What is “Osaka University 21st Century Kaitokudo”? “Kaitokudo” is an institution of learning established in 1724 by an Osaka merchant with the aim of improving himself. Osaka University, which was born with the support of citizens, shares Kaitokudo and Tekijuku as its spiritual origins, and established 21st Century Kaitokudo to create a place to learn together with citizens and a network of knowledge, and to promote co-creation with society. Osaka University is actively engaged in educational and research activities in a variety of fields, and the role of 21st Century Kaitokudo is to give back the results of these activities to society, discover new issues through thinking together with society, and use these to further the development of education and research – in other words, to support activities of
“society-academia co-creation.”
https://21c-kaitokudo.osaka-u.ac.jp
