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Expo 2025 spotlights Japan’s vision for sustainable food and next-gen healthcare

At Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, Japan is putting its culinary heritage and medical innovation on the global stage, from zero-waste food systems to cutting-edge regenerative therapies using iPS cells.

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00:00Japanese food is renowned for being fresh and healthy and here at Expo 2025 in Osaka,
00:07sustainable seafood is one of the many menu highlights.
00:14That said, we're not just here for the tasty food.
00:17In fact, at Expo 2025, they're asking profound and long-term questions
00:22about how to feed the growing population of our planet in a sustainable way,
00:27while also keeping everybody healthy in body and mind.
00:31So let's take a look.
00:38During the Necessities of Life Food, Clothing and Shelter theme week,
00:42one of the ways to engage the crowd in the conversation around sustainability
00:46was to invite them to build a traditional kiyoki cask used for fermenting soy sauce.
00:51Meanwhile, the discussion inside was focused on why Japanese specialties such as seaweed and seafood
01:01are both planet-friendly and highly nutritious.
01:05Michelin-style chef Yoshihiro Murata believes his country's cuisine offers a pathway
01:10to nourish the generations to come.
01:13Japanese cuisine is very sustainable, so its carbon emissions are originally very low.
01:19It's a vegetable-scented cuisine that doesn't use much meat,
01:24and it can be prepared without using even a single drop of oil.
01:30I believe that this way of cooking and thinking is a plus for the health of the world.
01:37Healthy food is part of the picture, yet panelists at this high-level debate stressed that a sustainable food system needs to eliminate waste.
01:51Brazilian expert João Campari explains why.
01:54We're wasting about 40% of all food that is produced because in appropriate storage facilities,
02:00sometimes the seeds that are planted are not fit for purposes of climate change and other conditions,
02:06and a lot is lost also on transport.
02:09Providing good food for all is one challenge, and the other is staying healthy for longer.
02:17A promising innovation in the spotlight during the health and wellbeing theme week is regenerative medicine using what are known as iPS cells,
02:25which can replace any cell in the body.
02:27Professor Yoshiki Sauer has been pioneering their use in heart therapy.
02:33To overcome this heart failure pandemic, I think that the most important is to develop the degenerative therapy.
02:44If we make much more effort, I think that finally the organ failure should be controlled by iPS cells.
02:52It is very, very promising.
02:58Taking such new technology from the lab to the market was the focus of the Japan Health Conference in Osaka alongside Expo 2025.
03:07It was initiated by Professor Sauer, who is keen to accelerate innovation in healthcare.
03:12Japan Health plays a significant role to accelerate such kind of social implementation,
03:19especially the business or the industrialization.
03:24Like many other industries, healthcare is now applying AI tools in research.
03:30Belgian immunologist Professor Damia Laui sees strong potential to personalize cancer care.
03:38We are going more and more towards personalization of therapies and personalization of combination therapies,
03:43but that's still quite a futuristic vision.
03:48But that's where AI might help us to then be able to make the right combination therapies in a personalized way for each patient individually.
03:57Helping the individual and supporting collective goals, both important themes here at Expo 2025.
04:08And they were perfectly symbolized by the day-long effort from the crowd to make one kiyoki cask,
04:13which will be used for at least a century to come, according to the soy sauce master.
04:17We had a lot of help from many people at this expo site.
04:22We may have made a better product if we had done it by ourselves,
04:27but this wooden cask was filled with the feelings of everyone who helped us at the expo.
04:34So we would like to ferment their thoughts together to make a good soy sauce.
04:39Well, that's all we have time for in this program, but you can see many more fresh ideas for the future from Expo 2025 on Euronews.com.
04:54Euronews.com

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