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International Girls’ Day & Expo Closing Event
Konohana Western Waterfront Greenbelt Area — Waterside Revitalization Project
TASOGARE YOICHI
Reborn Challenge Showcase (Expo Off‑site Exhibition Project)
From “Shiwayose” to “Shiawase” — Rethinking Work Toward Happiness
KAIZUKA MACHIGOTO EXPO
RAKUGO SHOW classic Japanese comedy
Osaka Connected Charging Project
Sushi Culture Table
EXPO GENERATION
Osaka Art & Design
Osaka Boxing and Adventure Tour
The 3rd Adaptive Fashion Show 2025
Machigoto Expo × Abeno Tennoji Summer Campus Collaboration Project
Citizen-Led DX Project: “Creating a City Without Language Barriers”
NAKANOSHIMA RIVER FESTA
All Japan Konbou Association
MIRAI SAKAI EXPO
Expo Kamishibai Project
Hirai Marche Executive Committee
SUNTORY Street corner pavilions
Winery Tour and Traditional Japanese House Stroll
e METRO MOBILITY TOWN
mini mimi expo
Demonstration operation of an autonomous bus service around the Morinomiya area
KANSAI CURRY CARE ASSOCIATION
Wanpaku Expo
KUUZO~Expo? More like Eatspo!
Grand Sumo Expo Naniwa Expo, Kadoma, Japan
Osaka JOINER
Sakishima Children’s EXPO
HH EXPO
Water Metropolis Osaka Bridge Terrace
Fukae Festival
Exhibitions of Exposition
2025Midosuji Satellite Plan
Smart Street – Minami Migration Creation Project
Community Attract Project
Umeda Town Guide Escort
”LIVE EFFECT” Street Live in the City
Registered Cultural Properties EXPO
Osaka Sakuyahime SDGs Study Group Team City Planning
Osaka Eemachi Project
Kitakagaya BIG★BANG
SDGs LABO Wakamono Idea Contest & Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai Countdown Event Online Relay Talk “From Belgium to Osaka Celebrate International Women’s Day with Mimosas!
Osaka River Fantasy
URA EXPO
Disaster Prevention in Future Towns
KANSAI ALLYMO
Miyakojima Future EXPO
FactorISM
Tsukamoto Coffee Market
Sayama Pond Clean Action”Sayasasu” for EXPO2025
ONIGIRI WOW!
Osaka Pro Wrestling Expo Project
Project “nomonoco”
Night Pavilion
DocoDemo Festival Osaka
The Photogenic Osaka Project
OPEN FACTORY CITY YAO
Let’s touch the Taishogoto, a musical instrument born in Japan.
AMEMURA Re:SAIKOO
Machikado Live Creation 2024
Expo Anthem Orchestra
Doshomachi Revitalization Project
EXPO Sakaba – North / South Main Branch
OSAKA-HAKU
NAKANOSHIMA PAVILION FESTIVAL 2025 ～A Festival of Academic Arts in Aqua Metropolis Osaka～
Higashiyokobori River ING Project
Eeyan Machi Fes
Osaka Good Yokan
EXPO Bar
Kandai Banpakubu
Pre-EXPO 2025 OSAKA, KANSAI Commemorative Project
Sakuya Working Community
Osaka Sakuyahime SDGs Study Group
EXPO SENSHU BISHOKU
YOLO Pavilion
EXPO2025 Sakuyahime Congress
Aqua Metropolis Osaka
Traditional Performing Arts EXPO
Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the Kansai Area “EXPO 2025 Osaka, Kansai Momentum Fostering Working Group”
The Entrepreneurial Museum of Challenge and Innovation
Higashiyokobori River Edible Park
People
HAIBARA Michiharu
KIMURA Miho
TANAKA Yoshinori
ASO Yoko
ENSHO Koji
MISHIMA Hiroyuki / KATSURA Koharudanji
KATATYAMA Souichiro
TAKEUCHI Rumi
YAMANE Shiboru
AOKI Akio
URASHIMA Taishi
SANDA Minori
KATO Yoji
TAKAHARA Tatsuya
KANEKI Yosuke
NIO Kazuyo
KAWAI Yasuko
ARIMOTO Hiroka
KAWACHI Kazuhiro
MAKI Kayoko
YAMADA Mariko
YAMAMOTO Yoshie
YAMAMOTO Masaki
FUJIOKA Keiko
SUGIMOTO Yoko
INOSE toshiyuki
MATSUO Yasuki
OSAWA Kenichi
NODERA Yuuki
SAKO Ryota
IWAMOTO Yuhei
OBAYASHI Kensho
Mizuki Nasu
HANAOKA
MATSUMOTO Keisuke
BABA Hiroyuki
Ikuno Goto
MATSUI Masao
GIMA Kenta
HAGIWARA Koji
MATSUBA Sayaka
[OLD]山本 超基
DEGUCHI Kiyofumi
HOSHINO Sachiyo
UTSUNOMIYA Yoriko
OKAMOTO Eri
TAKEMOTO Yohei
SASAKI Yusuke
KAI Rieko
AKAMATSU Maya
SENDA Tadashi
MURAKAWA Hideo
KOTANI Miki
BINGHAM Ayako
MATSUI Iyoko
FUJIMOTO Kayoko
EINAGA Chiharu
ABE Mayumi
MOTO Nami
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Will Osaka Spice Curry Reach the World!? The KANSAI CURRY CARE ASSOCIATION Continues to Protect the Holy Land of Curry
Roundtable with Elementary School Students on the Street! What is the Project “nomonoco”, where children help create the Expo pavilion?
The venue is not limited to Yumeshima. Let’s toast with people from all over the world at the “EXPO Sakaba Main Branch” opening in both Kita and Minami!
People
Chairman, NPO International Rakugo Promotion Association
MISHIMA Hiroyuki / KATSURA Koharudanji
He was born on February 15, 1958, in Osaka City. In 1977 he became an apprentice of the third‑generation Katsura Shundanji. In 1999 he succeeded to the name Katsura Koharudanji at Dotonbori Nakaza. Beginning in 2000 with a tour to the United Kingdom, he has performed in more than 20 countries worldwide. In 2006 he was appointed as a Cultural Exchange Envoy by the Agency for Cultural Affairs and was selected by Newsweek as one of “100 Japanese People the World Respects.” He founded the NPO International Rakugo Promotion Association, the first NPO established by a rakugo performer.
In 2007 he became the first rakugo performer to appear on Broadway in New York and received the Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Festival Excellence Award. In 2010 he became the first rakugo performer to give performances at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and at Carnegie Hall. He serves as a director of the Public Interest Incorporated Association Kamigata Rakugo Association, a director of the Kansai Entertainment Association, executive director of the Osaka Cultural and Performing Arts National Health Insurance Union, and chairman of the NPO International Rakugo Promotion Association.
We believe that in Osaka — a city of laughter — presenting the unparalleled classical comedy of Rakugo to foreign tourists offers a valuable opportunity to share Osaka’s culture of humor and to show that Japanese people, often seen as serious and not given to joking, have long possessed rich wit and imagination. Taking advantage of the Expo as a gathering of people from around the world, we will promote Kamigata rakugo — Osaka’s comedic art and cultural asset — to a global audience.
